International Monetary Arrangements For The 21st Century

Author : Barry Eichengreen
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815791423
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Monetary Arrangements for the 21st Century written by Barry Eichengreen and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2000-08-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent events have reignited the debate over the future of the international monetary system. This book, part of the Integrating National Economic series, examines international monetary options of the twenty-first century. Barry Eichengreen argues that it will not be possible for governments to prevent exchange rates from exceeding prespecified limits. Changes in technology, market structure, and politics will force countries that have traditionally pegged their exchange rates to choose between floating rates and monetary unification. Eichengreen describes the various international monetary arrangements with which policymakers have experimented in the past. He introduces the requirements that an international monetary system must satisfy and illustrates how these requirements have been met over time. He analyzes which preconditions for the smooth operation of international monetary systems in the past will be impossible to achieve in the next century and creates a list of feasible options for future policymakers. These feasible options, he concludes, will be limited to some form of floating exchange rates and monetary unions. In which direction countries should move is not obvious. The choice between floating and monetary unification depends on a host of economic and political factors. The book provides an in-depth analysis of Western Europe's experience and the dramatic international monetary initiatives currently under way, and compares options for Asia, Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Western Hemisphere. A volume of Brookings' Integrating National Economies Series

Author : José Antonio Ocampo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019871811X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System written by José Antonio Ocampo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Provides an analysis of the global monetary system and proposes a comprehensive yet evolutionary reform of the system aimed at creating better monetary cooperation for the twenty-first century.

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Publisher : Peterson Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780881325829
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming the IMF for the 21st Century written by and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2006 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Z. Aliber
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reconstruction of International Monetary Arrangements written by Robert Z. Aliber and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1987 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decade of the 1970s was one of turbulence in international monetary arrangements - the exchange rates fluctuated through a wide range, national price levels more than doubled fueled partly by several oil price shocks, and the external debts of the developing countries increased from $120 billion to

Author : Barry J. Eichengreen
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Monetary System in the (Very) Long Run written by Barry J. Eichengreen and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper takes stock of the evolution of the international monetary system over the last thousand years. Several points stand out from the analysis. One is the reluctance of governments to embrace radical changes in international monetary relations. Another is the conflict between external and domestic objectives over the cycle, which has been a source of significant tension in the industrial core through much of this century, is now becoming a significant issue for developing countries. Finally, recent developments represent a return to the more market-driven international monetary system that characterized the better part of the preceeding millennium.

Author : Minouche Shafik
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069120764X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What We Owe Each Other written by Minouche Shafik and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change. Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience—raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old—and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return. Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society—together.

Author : Edwin M Truman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0881324671
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Strategy For IMF Reform written by Edwin M Truman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in eclipse as the preeminent institution promoting international economic and financial stability. Successful reform of the IMF must engage the full spectrum of its members. The IMF should not focus primarily on its low-income members and the challenges of global poverty nor should it focus exclusively on international financial crises affecting a small group of vulnerable emerging-market economies. Instead, it must be engaged with each of its members potentially on the full range of their economic and financial policies and play a central role in shaping global economic performance. This important new book strongly argues that systemically important countries, starting with the Group of Seven, must support the IMF in this role. Its recommendations cover all key aspects of IMF responsibilities and operations: (1) In the crucial area of governance, the membership of the IMF should promptly address the reallocation of IMF shares (voting power) and the reallocation of chairs (representation on the IMF executive board), and it is time to discard the old conventions and to adopt a merit-based approach to the choice of the IMF's leadership; (2) mechanisms should be put in place to increase the IMF's leverage over systemically important members, and the IMF must act more forcefully in discharging its responsibility to exercise firm surveillance over members' exchange rate policies; (3) the Fund's central role in external financial crises should be reaffirmed; (4) the IMF should narrow and refocus its involvement with its low-income members; (5) the IMF's activities should be updated with respect to members' capital account policies and financial sectors; and (6) the IMF should put in place procedures for borrowing from the market to guard against the possibility that it will not receive timely increases in its quota resources.

Author : Mr.George M. Von Furstenberg
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 0939934272
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Money and Credit written by Mr.George M. Von Furstenberg and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1984-09-15 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by George M. von Furstenberg, this volume presents the rethinking of the functions and purposes served by international monetary arrangements at leading universities, banks, and official institutions.

Author : Julius Horváth
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781600212260
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Currency Arrangements and Policies written by Julius Horváth and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with exchange rate arrangements and exchange rate policies. Chapter 2 classifies exchange rates into flexible, intermediate and rigid arrangements. The book is subdivided into an arrangement of free float, managed float, pegged but adjustable, target zone, crawling peg, hard peg, currency board, dollarisation, and monetary union. This chapter also discusses hypothesis of vanishing intermediate exchange rate arrangements as well as it deals with differentiation between de jure, and de facto exchange rate arrangements. Chapter 3 deals with the issue of choosing an appropriate exchange rate arrangement. The book briefly characterises basic approaches of how to choose an exchange rate regime. Furthermore, the book reviews considerations stemming from the optimum currency area literature. Chapter 4 deals with problems of exchange rate, which were encountered by the most developed transition countries. After discussing the initial stabilisation problems of the early 1990s, it provides a general overview of the macroeconomic situation and exchange rates arrangements in these countries in the period 1990-2004. Also the book discusses issues connected with the future introduction of the euro into these countries. Chapter 5 provides the reader with two case studies. First, a discussion of the Czech experience in the transition period till the crisis in May 1997 is presented. Second, a discussion of the Hungarian experience concerning banking and exchange rate policy in the 1990s till the early years of this century. Finally, Chapter 6 discusses different historical periods from the viewpoint of currency arrangements.

Author : Robert Triffin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of the International Monetary System written by Robert Triffin and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: