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Bretton-Woodský měnový systém: Systém fixních nebo de-facto plovoucích kurzů?
[Bretton-Woods Monetary System: Was It Fixed or De-facto Floating?]

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International monetary system made by agreement in Bretton – Woods, is widely known to be the system of fixed exchange rates with allowed +/- 1% band of oscillation. As such, it is viewed as the period of exchange rates stability. However, our analysis of Reinhart – Rogoff’s (2004) database of exchange rates regimes shows, that most countries chose far more flexible exchange rates’ regimes. By the same token, the de – facto exchange rates varied very often and substantially from the officially declared ones.

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  • Bednarik, Radek, 2009. "Bretton-Woodský měnový systém: Systém fixních nebo de-facto plovoucích kurzů? [Bretton-Woods Monetary System: Was It Fixed or De-facto Floating?]," MPRA Paper 15297, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    International monetary system; Bretton – Woods; foreign exchange rates; peg; floating;
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    JEL classification:

    • F31 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Exchange
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions

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