reserve currency
. Thus an important
feature of the Bretton Woods system was the establishment of the United States
as the reserve currency country. Even after the breakup of the Bretton Woods
system, the U.S. dollar has kept its position as the reserve currency in which
most international financial transactions are conducted. However, with the cre-
ation of the euro in 1999, the supremacy of the U.S. dollar may be subject to a
serious challenge (see the Global box, The Euro s Challenge to the U.S. Dollar).
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