## The European Monetary System: The Experience, 1979-82

_Occasional Papers, May 16, 1983_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Peter Nyberg, Horst Ungerer, Owen Evens
- Published: May 16, 1983
- Series: Occasional Papers
- Volume: 1983
- Issue: 005
- Pages: 46
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557750631.084
- Stock No: S019EA0000000
- ISBN: 9781557750631
- ISSN: 0251-6365

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### Scope and focus
- This paper is concerned with developments in the European Monetary System (EMS) from its start in March 1979 through December 1982.
- Subject areas listed: Asset and liability management; Banking; Credit; Currencies; Exchange rates; Foreign exchange; Foreign exchange intervention; International liquidity; Money.

### Authors and publication metadata
- Authors: Peter Nyberg, Horst Ungerer, Owen Evens
- Publication date: May 16, 1983
- Series: Occasional Paper No. 1983/005
- Issue: 005
- Volume: 1983
- Pages: 46

### Identifiers and cataloguing
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557750631.084
- ISBN: 9781557750631
- ISSN: 0251-6365
- Stock No: S019EA0000000

### Keywords and thematic tags
- central bank
- Credit
- Currencies
- EC country
- EMS
- EMS Band
- EMS country
- EMS credit facilities
- EMS currency
- EMS participant
- Europe
- exchange rate
- Exchange rates
- Foreign exchange intervention
- Global
- International liquidity
- OP

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