So far, these costs have been tamed by high domestic interest rates, keeping Central Europe's currencies strong.

Moreover, the dollar s appreciation relative to other currencies has reduced import costs, putting competitive pressure on domestic firms to reduce prices.

But what about currencies?

East Asia s victims of currency crises were, like most other nations, on fixed rates pegged to the dollar, other major hard currencies, or baskets of currencies. The central bank promised to redeem its own currency on demand by any holders, foreign or domestic, in prescribed amounts of hard currencies.

The central bank promised to redeem its own currency on demand by any holders, foreign or domestic, in prescribed amounts of hard currencies.

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Floating rates worked for the Big Three currencies, forestalling traumatic crises for other currencies too.

Ideally, Asian currencies would rise much more than 15 while European currencies would rise less.

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European currencies weakened against the dollar.

The exchange rate measures the relationship between at least two currencies, whose values are based on the productivity and domestic balance of their respective national economies.

So far, these costs have been tamed by high domestic interest rates, keeping Central Europe's currencies strong. But if they euroize too soon, candidate countries could find themselves with lower domestic interest rates but a higher external default risk.

He argued that taxing short term movements of money in and out of different currencies would curb speculation and create some maneuvering room for domestic macroeconomic management.

By contrast, countries like China and India, which avoided a surge of capital inflows, managed to maintain highly competitive domestic currencies, and thereby kept profitability and investment high.

Regional currencies, flexible against the dollar and Euro, might be a better defense against financial panic than individual national currencies

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Efficiency dictates the use of fewer and larger currencies (and foreign investors, understandably wary of weak and volatile currencies, demand it).

This is particularly true with respect to lending in foreign currencies to economic agents that do not have revenues in those currencies.

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Commodity currencies had to come off their meteoric highs.

Since then, most emerging market currencies have rebounded sharply.

All currencies fell against the dollar and the yen.

Other Asian countries should let their currencies weaken, too.

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Emerging market currencies were hammered, as were commodity currencies such as the Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand dollars, and the South African rand.

Currencies fell, interest rates rose, and credit default swaps soared.

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And floating and fixed exchange rate regimes coexist uneasily, because volatility tends to affect the floating currencies (often the euro, and recently the Latin American currencies).

East Asia s victims of currency crises were, like most other nations, on fixed rates pegged to the dollar, other major hard currencies, or baskets of currencies.

Countries running surpluses must adopt expansionary policies and appreciate their currencies.

In fact, this will happen whatever the exchange rate between currencies.

Traditionally, the weak and useless currencies were thrown into the abyss

Prohibition of certain transactions for prudential reasons also makes sense, particularly for borrowing in foreign currencies by economic agents that do not have revenues in those currencies.

Fearing domestic asset price bubbles and upward pressure on their currencies from an inward rush of capital, many emerging economy leaders complained loudly about what Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega called an international currency war.

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They can be used only by converting them into one of four currencies, at which point they begin to carry interest at those currencies combined treasury bill rate.

They had long existed with remarkable economic progress and with stable currencies.

Some Asian economies, especially China, are also attempting to internationalize their currencies.

There are two alternative and sharply contrasting approaches to getting currencies right.

QE helped American exports by weakening the dollar relative to other currencies.

Germany, with its history of a strong deutsche mark and very competitive costs, likes the strong euro more than, say, its partners, France and Italy, which have histories of weak domestic currencies and non competitive export costs.

The dollar has also risen relative to currencies of emerging markets with economic and financial fragilities twin fiscal and current account deficits, rising inflation and slowing growth, large stocks of domestic and foreign debt, and political instability.