Abstract
There is no such thing as a general theory of the currency board (CB). Hitherto, there is no generally accepted definition of a currency board. Additionally the term is increasingly being used in political discussions, and thereby it is becoming increasingly meaningless.
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Fuhrmann, W. (1998). Towards a General Theory of a Currency Board System. In: Wagner, H. (eds) Current Issues in Monetary Economics. Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-99797-6_17
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