The Unstable EMS

Barry Eichengreen and Charles Wyplosz

Discussants: Rudiger Dornbusch and William H. Branson

1993, No. 1

FROM THE STANDPOINT OF EUROPEAN MONETARY AFFAIRS, 1992
opened with a bang and closed with a whimper. In January, the European
monetary system (EMS) celebrated five years of exchange rate stability:
sixty full months without a realignment. The month before, the
representatives of European Community (EC) member-states initialed
the Treaty on Economic and Monetary Union concluded at Maastricht
in the Netherlands. The transition to European monetary union (EMU)
appeared to be fully underway.

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The Unstable EMS

Barry Eichengreen and Barry Eichengreen Professor - University of California, Berkeley Charles Wyplosz CW Charles Wyplosz Discussants: Rudiger Dornbusch and RD Rudiger Dornbusch William H. Branson WHB William H. Branson

Barry Eichengreen and Charles Wyplosz

Discussants: Rudiger Dornbusch and William H. Branson