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- From: lml@vision.ummed.edu (Lawrence Mark Lifshitz)
- Subject: how does European Exchange Rate Mechanism work (UK vs. Germany)?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.153842.11930@vision.ummed.edu>
- Sender: lml@vision.ummed.edu (Lawrence Mark Lifshitz)
- Organization: University of Massachusetts Medical Center
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:38:42 GMT
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- I am trying to clear up a lack of understanding in how parts
- of the European Rate Mechanism (?) currency exchange rates
- work. Last month there was this big hullabaloo about how
- the UK was outside of its exchange rate bounds with Germany.
- The UK ended up pulling out of the system because it's bank
- couldn't maintain the rate within the specified range.
-
- Question: why did the UK have to take the onus for the
- problem and not Germany? I don't mean from an economic
- stance, eg, the UK mismanaged their economy so the exchange
- rate couldn't be maintained. I mean how do the powers
- that be (whoever they are) decide that the UK is the one
- which is in violation of the ERM rules? After all, it
- takes two to define an exchange rate. Why wasn't Germany
- worried about violating the ERM rules?
-