Why Can Interactions in an International Monetary Regime Be Like

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Multiple Choice

Why can interactions in an international monetary regime be like a Prisoner's Dilemma?

• A)Each government has an incentive to cheat by pegging its currency;the result is a world where every government wants to peg its currency to someone else.
• B)Each government has an incentive to cheat by devaluing its currency,and the result is all governments become worse off because of competitive devaluations.
• C)Each government faces a choice between fixing its currency's exchange rate or letting the currency float freely.
• D)Each government is trapped by the rules of the international monetary regime.
• E)All governments have a clear incentive to create an international government to regulate monetary affairs even though this will make them captive to its rules.

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