Die Kritik am gegenwärtigen Weltwährungssystem setzt vor allem an zwei Charakteristika des Regimes flexibler Wechselkurse an: der Volatilität der Kurse und der hohen Wahrscheinlichkeit, daß die Kurse längerfristig von ihren "Gleichgewichtswerten" abweichen. Beide Fehlentwicklungen, die am...

This volume is a collection of papers on money, currency and economic history.0Money and currency have always been used for buying, paying, exchanging values, services or commodities. However there has always been a deep contradiction between the national character of coins and the international...

To counter the sharp appreciation of the Swiss franc that set in in the wake of the European sovereign debt crisis, on September 6, 2011, the Swiss National Bank announced to enforce a minimum EUR/CHF exchange rate of CHF 1.20. We find that the simple, though elegant model for the exchange rate...