Hong Kong SAR's Monetary and Exchange Rate Challenges (Plagrave Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)
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Hardcover. Hong Kong SAR is now highly unusual as a large economy running a currency board system that pegs the Hong Kong Dollar to the US Dollar. This volume explores the origins and persistence of this system, presenting the viewpoint of several of the main protagonists in the operation of the currency board since 1983 as well as new research by academics. Editor(s): Schenk, Catherine. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; KCBM; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Hong Kong SAR is now highly unusual as a large economy running a currency board system that pegs the Hong Kong Dollar to the US Dollar. This volume explores the origins and persistence of this system, presenting the viewpoint of several of the main protagonists in the operation of the currency board since 1983 as well as new research by academics.
Hong Kong SAR is now highly unusual as a large economy running a currency board system that pegs the Hong Kong Dollar to the US Dollar. This volume explores the origins and persistence of this system, presenting the viewpoint of several of the main protagonists in the operation of the currency board since 1983 as well as new research by academics.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
Number of Pages
201
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230209466
SKU
V9780230209466
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99-15
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CATHERINE R. SCHENK FRHS, AcSS is Professor of International Economic History at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has published widely on Hong Kong's banking and monetary history and is the author of Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre (Routledge, 2001). She was Research Fellow at the HKIMR in 2005 and 2008.
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