How do you explain the rise and fall of the Bretton Woods system? and the creation of an optimal currency area?

How do you explain the rise and fall of the Bretton Woods system? How far the emergence of the Euro can be seen against the background of the need for exchange rate stability and the creation of an optimal currency area? 1)<Tab/>The rise and fall of the Bretton Woods system: The origins of the Bretton Woods system are to be found in the convergence of several key conditions: the shared …showed first 75 words of 2602 total…

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