Maintaining a Fixed Exchange Rate Over the Long Run Is

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Multiple Choice

Maintaining a fixed exchange rate over the long run is today

• A) virtually impossible.
• B) more vulnerable to speculative attacks than in the past.
• C) preferable.
• D) possible only in special cases such as maintaining strict capital controls.
• E) aided by technology which allows instant movement of money between financial markets in different countries.

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