This book poses the important question of whether exchange rates are ultimately tied down by economic fundamentals. In a unique approach the subject is analysed from an asset holder's perspective and Streissler takes the reader through an authoritative and wide-ranging study including:
*Friedman's case for flexible exchange rates
*interest parity and purchasing power parity
*process analysis of temporal exchange rate equilibria
*stabilization through bounded interest rates and exchange rate theory
*the problem of the neutrality of money