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BerkShares is a local currency that circulates in The Berkshires region of Massachusetts. It was launched on September 29, 2006 [1] by BerkShares Inc., with research and development assistance from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. The BerkShares website lists around 400 businesses in Berkshire County that accept the currency.
Tables of historical exchange rates to the United States dollar. Listed below is a table of historical exchange rates relative to the U.S. dollar, at present the most widely traded currency in the world. [1] An exchange rate represents the value of one currency in another. An exchange rate between two currencies fluctuates over time.
US Money and BE Dollars Lafayette, Louisiana; Crescents (Started: 2004) New Orleans; Maine. Waldo Hours Unity, Maine (Inactive) Maryland. Anacostia Hours Mount Rainier, Maryland (Inactive) Baltimore Hours Baltimore, Maryland (Inactive) P.E.N. Neighborhood Exchange Takoma Park, Maryland (Inactive) The BNote Baltimore, Maryland; Massachusetts
An exchange rate regime is a way a monetary authority of a country or currency union manages the currency about other currencies and the foreign exchange market.It is closely related to monetary policy and the two are generally dependent on many of the same factors, such as economic scale and openness, inflation rate, the elasticity of the labor market, financial market development, and ...
A managed float regime, also known as a dirty float, is a type of exchange rate regime where a currency's value is allowed to fluctuate in response to foreign-exchange market mechanisms (i.e., supply and demand), but the central bank or monetary authority of the country intervenes occasionally to stabilize or steer the currency's value in a particular direction.
In macroeconomics and economic policy, a floating exchange rate (also known as a fluctuating or flexible exchange rate) is a type of exchange rate regime in which a currency 's value is allowed to fluctuate in response to foreign exchange market events. [1] A currency that uses a floating exchange rate is known as a floating currency, in ...
Exchange-rate flexibility. In macroeconomics, a flexible exchange-rate system is a monetary system that allows the exchange rate to be determined by supply and demand. [1] Every currency area must decide what type of exchange rate arrangement to maintain. Between permanently fixed and completely flexible, some take heterogeneous approaches.
Fixed currency Reference currency Rate (reference / fixed) Abkhazian apsar: Russian ruble: 0.1 Alderney pound (only coins): Pound sterling: 1 Aruban florin: U.S. dollar