HomeDefinitionsCompareDebt Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM)The financial definition for Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM):The methodology by which members of the EMS maintain their currency EMS within an agreed-upon range with respect to other member countries. Similar MatchesEuropean exchange rate mechanism (ERM)European exchange rate mechanism (ERM)The system that countries in the European Union once used to pay exchange rates within bands around an ERM central value. Price specie flow mechanismPrice specie flow mechanismAdjustment mechanism under the classic gold standard allowing disturbances in the price level in one country to be wholly or partly offset by a countervailing flow of specie (gold coins) that would act to equalize prices across countries and automatically bring international payments into balance. Click to compare definitions of Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) Click to view definitions beginning ex |