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The end of an overlooked European currency war. CEPS Commentary, 21 January 2015

Gros, Daniel. (2015) The end of an overlooked European currency war. CEPS Commentary, 21 January 2015. [Policy Paper]

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    Abstract

    On January 15th the Swiss National Bank (SNB) abandoned the efforts it had taken since September 2011 to ensure that the Swiss franc/euro exchange rate would not fall below 1.2 Swiss francs per euro. The Swiss franc appreciated immediately by almost 20% (after a temporary overshot of an even larger amount).The justification was that speculative capital flows induced by the euro crisis were driving the Swiss franc above its equilibrium value. Daniel Gros draws some important general lessons in this Commentary from the Swiss case and finds that the move by the SNB to stop its interventions will have an important impact on the euro-area economy.

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    Item Type: Policy Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: Countries > Switzerland
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > economic and financial affairs > EMU/EMS/euro
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS Commentaries
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 23 Jan 2015 10:56
    Number of Pages: 4
    Last Modified: 29 Nov 2016 09:15
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/60162

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