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Can Denmark Succeed Where Switzerland Failed?

Geoff Riley

3rd February 2015

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Can the rich Danish economy continue to peg their exchange rate to the Euro? The currency has come under sustained upward pressure in recent months and the Danish central bank - whose sole mandate is to maintain the peg - has resorted to extraordinary measures to keep it in place.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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