Black Wednesday - A Re-examination of Britain's Experience in the Exchange Rate Mechanism

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Budd

Author(s):  
Leo Flynn

Article 124(1) EC Each Member State with a derogation shall treat its exchange-rate policy as a matter of common interest. In so doing, Member States shall take account of the experience acquired in cooperation within the framework of the exchange-rate mechanism.



1990 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 7-23

We start our forecast this time with an exchange rate 9½ per cent higher in the third quarter of this year than we anticipated in May. The main reason for the appreciation of sterling was probably a reassessment by the market of the likely course of UK monetary policy over the next year or two. The likelihood of an early and significant fall in interest rates has receded, as forecasts of the underlying rate of inflation have been revised up. At the same time the commitment to join the exchange-rate mechanism has become firmer, and the Chancellor has been interpreted as wishing to ‘talk the rate up’.





1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1071-1091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Jager ◽  
Eelke de Jong


Author(s):  
Steven Kettell

The concept of depoliticisation has become increasingly popular in recent years, but empirical studies into depoliticisation policies have been less prevalent. Absent from the literature, too, are any clearly delineated criteria by which the success or failure of such policies might be assessed. This article attempts to address these issues through an examination of Britain's membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism from 1990 to 1992. In contrast to the conventional view of this episode, in which it is seen as a policy disaster, it is argued that as a policy of depoliticisation ERM membership was a relative success.





Econometrica ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 360 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Polak ◽  
Ta-Chung Liu


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