Exchange rate regimes and the stability of the international monetary system

IMF Occasional Papers

Volumn , Issue 270, 2010, Pages 1-49

  Ghosh, Atish R ^a   Ostry, Jonathan D ^a   Tsangarides, Charalambos ^a  

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