The Internationalization of Yen and Key Currency Questions /

The role of the yen in the International financial system is reconsidered from a comparative (historical) approach. Compared with the D-Mark in the postwar years, the limited use of the yen results not so much from regulations on capital movements as from the structure and behavior of Japanese econo...

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Auteur principal: Iwami, Toru
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1994.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1994/041
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF
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