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Peter Bain Kenen was born on November 30, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He was a son of Isaiah Leo and Beatrice (Bain) Kenen.
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This paper examines the rationale for exchange-rate management, compares methods of management, and explores their implications for reserve and credit arrangements and generally looks at all aspects of managing exchange rates. This book should be of interest to brokers, bankers, students of economics and politics.
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This volume contains 24 papers on international monetary economics written between 1960 and 1993, by Peter Kenen. The essays cover theory, measurement and policy prescription. They offer a comprehensive assessment of international monetary economics.
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This book provides a comprehensive account and analysis of the plan for European monetary union contained in the Maastricht Treaty. The provisions of the treaty itself are examined, showing how they evolved, what must be done to implement them, and some of the problems they will pose. Kenen goes far beyond the treaty, however, to survey and adapt recent research by economists on the benefits and costs of monetary unions, the conduct of monetary policy, and the consequences of large public deficits and debts.
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Peter Bain Kenen was born on November 30, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He was a son of Isaiah Leo and Beatrice (Bain) Kenen.
Peter Bain Kenen attended The Bronx High School of Science. In 1954 Kenen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University. In 1956 he obtained a Master of Arts degree from Harvard University, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1958.
Peter Bain Kenen taught at Columbia University from 1957 to 1971, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Economics and was named as Provost of the University. While at Columbia, Kenen was a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey.
He was Director of the International Finance Section at Princeton from 1971 to 1999. He is best known for his work on the theory of optimum currency areas, in which he argued that groups of countries with diversified domestic production are more likely to constitute optimum currency areas than groups whose members are highly specialized. He was one of the first to advocate floating exchange rates for small country.
Kenen has been a consultant to the Council of Economic Advisers, the Office of Management and Budget, the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, and the United States Department of the Treasury. He was a member of President Kennedy's Task Force on Foreign Economic Policy, the Review Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics, and the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Group of Thirty. He was President of the Eastern Economic Association in 2000-01.
He has held research fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the German Marshall Fund, and he has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and Ford Research Professor at the University of California. In 1983-84, he was a Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University; in 1987-88, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs; in 1991-92, he held the Houblon-Norman Fellowship at the Bank of England; and in 2002, he was Professorial Fellow at the Victoria University of Wellington and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
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Author: British Monetary Policy and the Balance of Payments (1951-1957), 1960, Giant Among Nations, 1960. Author: (with A.G. Hart and A. Entine) Money, Debt and Economic Activity, 4th edition, 1969. Author: (with R. Lubitz) International Economics, 3d edition, 1971.Author: A Model of the United States Balance of Payments, 1978. Author: (with Puerto Rico Allen) Asset Markets, Exchange Rates and Economic Integration, 1980. Author: Essays in International Economics, 1980, Managing Exchange Rates, 1988, Exchange Rates and Policy Coordination, 1989, Exchange Rates and the Monetary System, 1994, Economic and Monetary Union in Europe, 1995, International Economy, 4th edition, 2000, The International Financial Architecture: What's New? What's Missing?, 2001.Author: (with Electrical Engineer Meade) Regional Monetary Integration. Editor: International Trade and Finance, Frontiers for Research, 1975. Editor: (with others) The International Monetary System Under Flexible Exchange Rates, 1982.Editor: (with R.W. Jones) Handbook of International Economics, 1984. Editor: Managing the World Economy, 1994, Understanding Interdependence, 1995. Editor: (with A.K. Swoboda) Reforming the International Monetary and Financial System, 2000.Contributor articles to professional journals.
Peter Bain Kener was a member of the American Economic Association, Council Foreign Relations, the Royal Economic Society, Group of Thirty.
On August 21, 1955 Peter Bain Kener married Regina Horowitz. They had four children: Joanne Lisa, Marc David, Stephanie Hope, Judith Rebecca.