Europe's fixed exchange rate mechanism collapsed in 1992.

People with fixed rate mortgages are also vulnerable to rate increases, though less directly.

The recovery rate of loans is almost 100 percent.

With fixed supply, rents on these properties should increase at a rate equal to or above the rate of GDP growth.

The country was no longer subject to imported deflation via the fixed exchange rate.

As a result, the interest rate for 12 month fixed deposits has reached 3.9 .

After all, a fixed exchange rate or common currency requires limits on fiscal independence.

H. Decision XVII __ Fixed exchange rate mechanism for the replenishment of the Multilateral Fund

The daily subsistence allowance rate is fixed on a monthly basis by the United Nations.

By contrast, China had a fixed investment rate of 41.7 of GDP and a savings rate of 51.9 , reflected in a large surplus.

In 1994, when I became State Secretary for Financial Affairs in Sweden s Ministry of Finance, recovery appeared to be on the horizon, following the abolition of the fixed exchange rate, the ensuing sharp depreciation of the Krona, and lower interest rates.

H. Draft decision XVII H Fixed exchange rate mechanism for the replenishment of the Multilateral Fund

In reality, of course, a single currency or fixed exchange rate is not needed for trade to flourish.

To direct the Treasurer to extend the fixed exchange rate mechanism for a further trial period of three years

Japan recorded its highest annual growth rate since 1996, whereas the European Union recovery remained sluggish.

About forty percent of its clients are women and the recovery rate is more than 95 .

With its high fixed cost structure, UNOPS has found it difficult to operate smaller, transaction intensive services on the basis of full cost recovery.

It is a lot easier to exit from a fixed exchange rate regime when the pressures on the currency are upwards.

Real exchange rate adjustments inside a monetary union, or among countries with fixed exchange rates, can take place through inflation differentials.

Between 2008 and June of this year, the Chinese held the renminbi at a fixed rate of 6.8 to the dollar.

The rate has come down to low levels only during the period of recovery from the immediate crisis.

Even more worrying, the rate of GDP growth has been declining almost from the start of the recovery.

Like Argentina, Greece has a fixed exchange rate, a long history of fiscal deficits, and an even longer history of sovereign defaults.

The CFA franc s fixed exchange rate is pegged to the euro and overvalued in order to shield French companies from euro depreciation.

a On the basis of the United States dollar euro exchange rate of 0.757 fixed by the United Nations for March 2005.

On the one hand, pegging local currencies to the dollar renders monetary policy completely ineffective, as in a fixed exchange rate regime.

On February 23, 2004, he pointed out that many homeowners might have saved tens of thousands of dollars had they held adjustable rate mortgages rather than fixed rate mortgages during the past decade.

The US could no longer maintain a fixed exchange rate between the dollar and gold the cornerstone of the postwar Bretton Woods system.

A completely fixed exchange rate rules out monetary policy initiative, and consequently makes adjustment to large external imbalances very difficult to carry out.

This will inevitably make fixed exchange rate links crack under pressure as the same monetary policy cannot possibly be appropriate for both regions.

But China s abandonment of the yuan s traditional parity in July 2005 rules out a new, credibly fixed exchange rate strategy for some time.

This is reminiscent of central banks futile efforts, back when fixed exchange rate regimes were common, to stabilize rates above their market equilibrium.

A multilateral imbalance especially one that it is traceable to a saving shortfall cannot be fixed by putting pressure on a bilateral exchange rate.

(b) Fixed exchange rate mechanism for the replenishment of the Multilateral Fund For the last two replenishments of the Multilateral Fund, the Parties have agreed on a fixed exchange rate mechanism with the objective of promoting the timely payment of contributions and ensuring that there is no adverse impact on the level of available resources of the Multilateral Fund.

Created after WWII to finance temporary imbalances of the members of a fixed exchange rate system, the IMF has been in search of a cause since the demise of the dollar exchange rate system in 1971.

In 1995 2010, when China s average annual GDP growth rate was 9.9 , fixed asset investment (investment in infrastructure and real estate projects) increased by a factor of 11.2, rising at an average annual rate of 20 .

Moreover, some countries industrial composition and low rates of productivity growth mean that a fixed exchange rate would doom them to increasingly large trade deficits.

This, together with external shocks and severe recessions, made fixed exchange rate regimes untenable, first in Mexico, later in Brazil, and then, spectacularly, in Argentina.

But this time, with the dollar appreciating against other major currencies in recent months, the relatively fixed rate between the dollar and the renminbi has caused China s currency to strengthen in terms of its real effective rate.

And low interest rates will encourage firms that do invest to spend on fixed capital like highly automated machines, thereby ensuring that, when recovery comes, it will be relatively jobless.

(A simpler view is that the ratio of deuterium to 18O in body water is fixed, so total loss rate of deuterium from the body multiplied by this ratio, immediately gives the loss rate of 18O in water.

He was, he now says, focusing on how fixed rate mortgages are relatively bad deals for borrowers in times of low inflation, which was a mistake.

Fixed mortgages, with interest rates at 6 , were replaced with variable rate mortgages, whose interest payments were tied to the lower short term T bill rates.

And floating and fixed exchange rate regimes coexist uneasily, because volatility tends to affect the floating currencies (often the euro, and recently the Latin American currencies).

The assumptions used in calculating the funding for low volume consuming countries was also raised, as was the need to consider the fixed exchange rate mechanism.