Currency Conflict and Trade Policy: A New Strategy for the United States

by C. Fred Bergsten, Joseph E. Gagnon, Joseph Gagnon

Conflicts over currency valuations are a recurrent feature of the modern global economy. To strengthen their international competitiveness, many countries resort to buying foreign currencies to make their exports cheaper and their imports more expensive. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, for example, China's currency manipulation practices were so flagrant that they produced a backlash in the United States and other trading partners,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881327263
• ISBN13: 9780881327267
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economic
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"