Robert Triffin

Robert Triffin ( born October 5, 1911 in Flobecq, † February 23, 1993 in Ostend) was a Belgian- American economist.

Life

In 1935 moved Triffin in the United States.

Triffin made ​​in 1959 to a design flaw of the Bretton Woods system, attentive, which became known as Triffin dilemma.

He grappled with the European Monetary Union, and looked at their creation less economic than political problems.

The use of the cross-price elasticity as an indicator of the strength of competing companies goes back to him, and is then known as Triffinischer coefficient.

Works (selection)

  • The international role and fate of the dollar. In: Foreign affairs, Vol 57 (1978 /79), pp. 269-286.
  • Europe and the Money Muddle. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1976, ISBN 0-8371-9026-6 ( Nachdr d ed New Haven, Conn. 1957).
  • Gold and the Dollar Crisis. The future of convertibility. Garland, New York 1983, ISBN 0-8240-5258-7 ( Nachdr d ed Princeton, NJ, 1978).
  • Signpost from the currency confusion ( "The world money maze "). Berlin -Verlag, Berlin 1967.
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