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This digital document is an article from Doors and Hardware, published by Door and Hardware Institute on December 1, 1997. The length of the article is 3827 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Is the euro-train on track? A single currency for a stronger market.(common currency for the European Union)
Author: Oliver Altstadt
Publication: Doors and Hardware (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 1997
Publisher: Door and Hardware Institute
Volume: 61Issue: 12Page: 68(7)

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This digital document is an article from Chief Executive (U.S.), published by Chief Executive Publishing on April 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1169 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Many US business organizations are unprepared for the introduction of the single European currency. Despite the fact that the European Monetary Union is the world's trading bloc, with a combined population of 370 million and GDP of $84 trillion, many American business leaders still consider the euro a 'European thing' and do not fully comprehend its enormous technological and strategic consequences. The introduction of the currency will require US firms doing business in Europe to revamp their information technology (IT) systems used in important business functions such as financial and accounting, inventory control, tax compliance and human resource operations. It has been estimated that IT conversions will cost over $1 million for small firms and about $100 million to $300 million for bigger companies such as Chase Manhattan.

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Title: Countdown to euro. (business impact of single European currency)
Author: Frank Ruotolo
Publication: Chief Executive (U.S.) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 1998
Publisher: Chief Executive Publishing
Issue: n133Page: p10(3)

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This digital document is an article from Quick Frozen Foods International, published by E.W. Williams Publications, Inc. on January 1, 1993. The length of the article is 1444 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: European currency gyrations, EC squabbles make for unsettled Danish business climate. (frozen food industry exports) (News from Europe)
Author: Henrik Emborg
Publication: Quick Frozen Foods International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1993
Publisher: E.W. Williams Publications, Inc.
Volume: v34Issue: n3Page: p124(2)

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For more than half a century, the U.S. dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's.It is used globally by importers, exporters, investors, governments and central banks alike. Nearly three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States. The dollar holdings of the Chinese government alone come to more than $1,000 per Chinese resident.

This dependence on dollars, by banks, corporations and governments around the world, is a source of strength for the United States. It is, as a critic of U.S. policies once put it, America's "exorbitant privilege." However, recent events have raised concerns that this soon may be a privilege lost. Among these have been the effects of the financial crisis and the Great Recession: high unemployment, record federal deficits, and financial distress. In addition there is the rise of challengers like the euro and China's renminbi. Some say that the dollar may soon cease to be the world's standard currency--which would depress American living standards and weaken the country's international influence.

In Exorbitant Privilege, one of our foremost economists, Barry Eichengreen, traces the rise of the dollar to international prominence over the course of the 20th century. He shows how the greenback dominated internationally in the second half of the century for the same reasons--and in the same way--that the United States dominated the global economy. But now, with the rise of China, India, Brazil and other emerging economies, America no longer towers over the global economy. It follows, Eichengreen argues, that the dollar will not be as dominant. But this does not mean that the coming changes will necessarily be sudden and dire--or that the dollar is doomed to lose its international status. Challenging the presumption that there is room for only one true global currency--either the dollar or something else--Eichengreen shows that several currencies have shared this international role over long periods. What was true in the distant past will be true, once again, in the not-too-distant future.

The dollar will lose its international currency status, Eichengreen warns, only if the United States repeats the mistakes that led to the financial crisis and only if it fails to put its fiscal and financial house in order. The greenback's fate hinges, in other words, not on the actions of the Chinese government but on economic policy decisions here in the United States.

Incisive, challenging and iconoclastic, Exorbitant Privilege is a fascinating analysis of the changes that lie ahead. It is a challenge, equally, to those who warn that the dollar is doomed and to those who regard its continuing dominance as inevitable. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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The author describes in this publcation, the institutional framework of the European Union,the existing currency systems, and provides a review of the Maastricht treaty ratification debates. He used the op-ed of Franco-German finance ministers published in the International Herald Tribune, to relate the desire of the two countries to work on the new currency creation, as well as describing the preparation of corporate France. The events to mark the new change over as reported in national newspapers and the pubic information campaign to turn millions of people into users of the Euro were well narrated. ... Read more

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French Public Opinion And The Transition To The Single Currency System 1981-2002 by Olajide Fashola is a remarkable accounting of the governmental public information campaign and the court of public opinion in modern history as France came to surrender its old currency of French francs and begin using the Euro. An explicitly detailed survey of a most remarkable and transformational shift in French national economics, French Public Opinion And The Transition To The Single Currency System could well serve as a template for similar economic evaluations of other European currencies in their transitions arising from the adoption of a common currency for members of the Economic Union. ... Read more

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In this sweeping and synthesizing work Professor Omeljan Pritsak charts the influence of Western European, Arabic, Khazaro-Bulgarian, and, later, Byzantine metrological and numismatic systems on the development of these systems in Kyivan Rus'. Beginning with a survey of the weights and monetary systems extant in Eurasia in the 7th to 11th centuries, Pritsak goes on to solve many of the fundamental problems that have existed for over a century in the study of Old Rus' metrology and numismatics.

Many of Pritsak's conclusions challenge conventional theories in this field. Students of the history of Rus' and numismatists in general will find this to be the most thoroughly researched and documented English-language study of the subject to date.

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An excellent resource, but not a good read
This book is largely devoted to an analysis of Old Rus' coins from the 9th to the 11th centuries. The first three chapters deal with the monetary systems of Western Europe, the Khazars, and the Volga Bulgars. The next two chapters deal with the Rus monetary systems of Kiev and Novgorod, with an appendix on Varangian runes found on Muslim coins. Then there are chapters on the iconography and epigraphy of Old Rus' coins, and classification of Old Rus' coins. Finally, there are illustrative tables, with enhanced pictures of Old Rus' coins, identifying each coin.

This book is extremely informative on its subject, and is comprehensive in its reach. Unfortunately, it is written in a very turgid, academic style. So, it makes an outstanding resource, but not a good read. ... Read more

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The purpose of this book is to provide an analysis of the emerging political and economic dilemmas EC member nations face on the road to Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty. Due to the fast-changing nature of the character, and thus the pace, of European monetary and economic integration, this book addresses the critical economic and political issues that threaten the European integration process during this decade and beyond. ... Read more

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As the complexity of financial markets keeps growing, so does the need to understand the decision-making and the coordination of the exsuing actions in the marketplace. In particular, the disclosure of information to market participants and its impact on the market outcome mertis attention. This study analyses the role of private and public information in currency crises. Calls for increased dissemination of economic and policy-related information by central banks notwithstanding, the study shows that transparency is not generally conductive to preventing speculative attacks in fixed exchange-rate regimes. Rather, the role of private and public information in the market-place depencs critically on the prevailing market sentiment. The study also highlights the import of market transparency design in an environment that allows for herding and market leadership of individual speculators. ... Read more

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Recent years have witnessed an increase in the frequency of currency and balance of payments crises in developing countries. More important, the crises have become more virulent, have caused widespread disruption to other developing countries, and have even had repercussions on advanced economies. To predict crises, their causes must be clearly understood. Two competing strands of theories are reviewed in this paper. The first focuses on the consequences of such policies as excessive credit growth in provoking depletion of foreign exchange reserves and making a devaluation inevitable. The second emphasizes the trade-offs between internal and external balance that the policymaker faces in defending a peg. ... Read more

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Focusing on monetization of international trade per se, this text analyses common financial practices of merchants and manufacturers, commercial banks, and central banks. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Currency question; National bank notes; Money; Business ... Read more

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This important book comprises insightful papers on lessons learned from somemajor exchange rate and monetary experiences in Asia, exchange rate crisismanagement in Asia and choice of exchange rate systems in Asia. It deals primarily with the exchange rate systems and policies in the threelargest economies in Asia: China, Japan and India. It also contains a paper onSingapore's exchange rate system, whose success could make it a role model forother small open economies. Notable contributors include Ronald McKinnon andJohn Williamson, among others. The editor is the original designer of China'slatest exchange rate system reform.

Contents: Introduction: Important Lessons from Some Major Exchange Rate andMonetary Experiences in Asia (P S L Yip); The International Monetary Fund andExchange Rate Crisis Management (C-Y Lim); The Case for an IntermediateExchange Rate Regime (J Williamson); Japan's Deflationary Hangover: WageStagnation and the Syndrome of the Ever-Weaker Yen (R McKinnon); ManagingFlexibility: Japanese Exchange Rate Policy, 1971 2007 (S Takagi); China'sExchange Rate System Reform (P S L Yip); The Fog Encircling the RenminbiDebate (Y-W Cheung et al.); Insulation of India from the East Asian Crisis: AnAnalysis (P Dua & A Sinha); Singapore's Exchange Rate Policy: SomeImplementation Issues (H-K Chow). ... Read more

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"The euro has quickly become a world currency, and this excellent work explains how this came about. It does the job, not only by looking at the economic factors involved, but also at political, legal, social, and cultural factors—all in a very creative and readable manner." —Richard Swedberg, Cornell University

"If the nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought a dramatic nationalization of government-backed currencies across the world, does the euro's introduction in 2002 write finis to the era of nationalism? Here, superbly informed observers of European politics, economy, and social life debate that question from multiple perspectives, not only documenting the depth of the euro's challenge, but also mapping alternative futures for Europe. An illuminating intervention in a vital conversation." —Viviana A. Zelizer, Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

"This is one of the most interesting and original books in the burgeoning field of EU studies to have emerged in recent years. Its emphasis on the likely social and cultural—not just political and economic—impact of the euro at the national, subnational, and supranational levels is timely and refreshing. Tighly edited, this book should be essential reading for professional and amateur EU-watchers alike." —Desmond Dinan, Jean Monnet Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University

"I know of no other books on the academic market that deal with the impact of the Euro on the political, economic, and social fabric of Europe. This volume is currently one-of-a-kind."—Jeffrey Anderson, Georgetown University

The Year of the Euro examines the wide-ranging importance of Europe’s new single currency beyond its impact on financial markets and the economy itself. On January 1, 2002, when the new currency began to circulate in the twelve participating member states of the European Union, the long move toward a supranational European framework for trade and institutions finally entered the fabric of daily life for hundreds of millions of citizens. The contributing authors to this highly readable and interdisciplinary volume offer a variety of perspectives on this extraordinary episode in currency change and European convergence. The book’s essays offer the assessments of leading scholars of European affairs—from the fields of history, political science, sociology, and law—as to whether the new common currency will reshape the continent’s cultures, societies and political systems and, if so, in what ways. The discussions and debates found in these pages will inform those, within and outside academia, who are interested in the future of Europe and in the meaning of national currencies. The volume is also suitable for classroom use in courses on the European Union, cultural and economic sociology, comparative politics, and contemporary Europe. ... Read more

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