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A Rapid Or Evolutionary Approach: The Eec's Adoption Of The Ecu As A Common Currency, Susan B. Shulman Jan 1991

A Rapid Or Evolutionary Approach: The Eec's Adoption Of The Ecu As A Common Currency, Susan B. Shulman

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Perhaps the EEC should move to a common currency, but there is no reason to rush towards such a dramatic change. According to optimal currency area theory, the current system of limited flexibility within the EEC is ideal. Any move to a common currency should be flexible in that it initially allows member states the ability to use national monetary policy if necessary. The British proposal allows just this kind of flexibility.


Recent Initiatives In International Financial Regulation And Goals Of Competitiveness, Effectiveness, Consistency And Cooperation, Joel P. Trachtman Jan 1991

Recent Initiatives In International Financial Regulation And Goals Of Competitiveness, Effectiveness, Consistency And Cooperation, Joel P. Trachtman

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The purpose of this examination is first, to review the basis for and method of applying U.S. regulation in these functional areas to offshore activities of U.S. persons and to both U.S. and offshore activities of foreign persons, and to understand the differences in approach taken by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) in interpreting the reach of prescriptive jurisdiction under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (the BHC Act), the Securities Act of 1933 (the Securities Act) and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the …