Monetary sovereignty, exchange rates, and capital controls: The Trilemma in the interwar period

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 51, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 75-108

  Obstfeld, Maurice ^a,b,c   Shambaugh, Jay C ^d   Taylor, Alan M ^b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Center for Economic and Policy Research   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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