flexible exchange

collocation in English

meaningsofflexibleandexchange

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flexible
adjective
uk
/ˈflek.sə.bəl/us
/ˈflek.sə.bəl/
able to change or be changed easily according to ...
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exchange
noun
uk
/ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ/us
/ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ/
the act of giving something to someone and them giving you ...
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(Definition offlexibleandexchangefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofflexible exchange

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This was around the time he published his case forflexibleexchangerates.
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Thus, keeping plural currencies withflexibleexchangeratios was a suitable way to trade in the actual market.
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The advantage of aflexibleexchangerate is lost if economic policy is aimed at minimising exchange rate volatility.
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The government was unable to defend the new peg and was forced to move within days to aflexibleexchangerate system.
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Of course, that task itself changed dramatically with the advent offlexibleexchangerates.
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It was that having a common currency had a surprisingly large effect, about four times the effect of geographical proximity or offlexibleexchangerates.
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Persistent fluctuations have characterized the behavior of the exchange rates ever since theflexibleexchange-rate system was introduced.
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To facilitate this real exchange rate adjustment in the face of nominal rigidities and limited international labour market mobility, it is useful to have aflexibleexchangerate.
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The source of this difference is that the terms of trade shocks produce a variance of output that is almost 50% greater under fixed than underflexibleexchangerates.
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If a region/country was hit by unemployment, the use of aflexibleexchangerate for that area would serve as an instrument of adjustment to restore full employment.
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The model explicitly incorporates the tradeoff between the macroeconomic stability gains of aflexibleexchangerate versus the reduction in transactions costs offered by a fixed rate.
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In this case, aflexibleexchangerate would facilitate economic adjustment by allowing the real exchange rate to respond more quickly to shocks when there are nominal rigidities.
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None of the possibilities offlexibleexchangerates is necessarily a better solution.
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The first casualty of a moreflexibleexchangerate is the common agricultural policy.
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Another way of putting the case forflexibleexchangerates is to say that the exchange rate would simply adjust continually to offset price rises.
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If costs become fundamentally out of line, there must be some give in the system, and that must come fromflexibleexchangerates.
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People almost pretend thatflexibleexchangerates did not cause recessions, cycles or inflation.
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The market does not force us to have aflexibleexchangerate policy.
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Obviously, we wantflexibleexchangerates, but that argument has not really been made today.
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