The Current Account in Perspective : Lessons from the Italian Experience.

This paper draws some lessons about policies toward the current account from Italy's balance of payments history between 1960 and 1988. The key role of speculative capital flows during every major episode of external imbalance brings out the limitations of exchange rate rules that focus exclusi...

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Müşterek Yazar: International Monetary Fund
Materyal Türü: Dergi
Dil:English
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1990.
Seri Bilgileri:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1990/037
Online Erişim:Full text available on IMF
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