Floating rates worth weight in gold for Germany

German society was better off under the floating exchange-rate regime than during the pre-first world war classical gold standard period, finds a paper by Michael Bordo and Bernhard Eschweiler for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The paper analyses monetary policy in Germany between 1880 and 1989. It finds that per capita output was stronger under the floating exchange-rate regime, adopted from 1974 to 1989, with an independent and conservative central bank, than during the classical

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