International Policy Coordination And Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Author : William H. Branson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226071383
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Policy Coordination and Exchange Rate Fluctuations written by William H. Branson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the five largest industrial democracies concluded the Plaza Agreement in 1985, the theory and practice of international economic policy coordination has become the subject of spirited academic and public-policy debate. While some view policy coordination as crucial for the construction of an improved international monetary system, others fear that it risks delaying or weakening the implementation of macroeconomic and structural policies. In these papers and comments, prominent international economists consider past and present interpretations of the meaning of international policy coordination; conditions necessary for coordination to be beneficial both to the direct participants and the global economy; influential factors for the quantitative impact of coordination; obstacles to coordination; the most—and least—effective methods of coordination; and future directions of the coordination process, including processes associated with greater fixity of exchange rates. These studies will be readily accessible to policymakers, while offering sophisticated analyses to interested scholars of the global economy.

Author : Peter B. Kenen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719030390
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exchange Rates and Policy Coordination written by Peter B. Kenen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451969821
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Coordination of Economic Policies written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1988-06-29 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses the scope, methods, and effects of international coordination of economic policies. In analyzing the scope for and of coordination, the paper addresses the rationale for coordination, barriers to coordination, the range and specificivity of policies to be coordinated, and the frequency of coordination. In evaluating the methods of coordination, the emphasis is on the broad issues of rules versus discretion, single-indicator versus multi-Indicator systems, and hegemonic versus symmetric systems. Finally, using the MULTIMOD global macroeconomic model, some simulations are presented of several rule-based proposals for coordination.

Author : Michael C. Webb
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745344
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Policy Coordination written by Michael C. Webb and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael C. Webb explores a central question about postwar economic history: how has the growth of international markets affected the coordination of economic policy among nations? His analysis overturns the popular assumption that policy coordination has eroded as American hegemony has receded. Instead, he argues that the growing mobility of capital forced governments to abandon the strategies they had used in the 1950s and 60s to insulate monetary and fiscal policies from international influences, and to move toward more direct coordination of central economic strategies. Webb shows that since 1945 there has been a crucial shift in the pattern of international collaboration. He focuses on three types of adjustment policy: trade and capital controls, balance-of-payment lending and intervention in foreign-exchange markets, and monetary and fiscal policies. Noting that the first two types are no longer effective, he demonstrates that governments now rely more on monetary and fiscal policy coordination to regulate the global economy. As the expansion of international finance created greater turbulence in the global economy in the 1980s, the liberal system of international trade threatened to collapse. Webb examines in particular how the United States, Japan, and Germany took unprecedented steps to coordinate monetary and fiscal policies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, although domestic political obstacles—not any decline in U.S. power—limited the impact of this policy coordination. He concludes by assessing the effectiveness of these attempts to reconcile the goal of a stronger liberal system of economic exchange with the desire to maintain national autonomy.

Author : Daniel Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Price and Trade Effects of Exchange Rate Fluctuations and the Design of Policy Coordination written by Daniel Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451844239
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coordination of Monetary and Fiscal Policies written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, monetary authorities have increasingly focused on implementing policies to ensure price stability and strengthen central bank independence. Simultaneously, in the fiscal area, market development has allowed public debt managers to focus more on cost minimization. This “divorce” of monetary and debt management functions in no way lessens the need for effective coordination of monetary and fiscal policy if overall economic performance is to be optimized and maintained in the long term. This paper analyzes these issues based on a review of the relevant literature and of country experiences from an institutional and operational perspective.

Author : Paul R. Masson
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981435015X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Currencies, Crises, Fiscal Policy, and Coordination written by Paul R. Masson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an integrated compilation of selected major articles published by the author in several fields of international finance. These include contributions to the understanding of currency crises and financial contagion, the evolution of exchange rate regimes, the interaction between national fiscal policies and regional monetary unions, and the effect of uncertainty on the gains from international economic policy coordination. The author spent most of his career doing research at established institutions (the Bank of Canada, OECD, and IMF), and these articles emerged from the need to understand the major economic policy issues of the day. In the book's introduction, the author discusses the motivation for these contributions and the unifying themes that emerged, while a concluding chapter provides his personal reflections and suggestions about promising avenues for further research.

Author : Mr.Jacob A. Frenkel
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 9781557755544
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Functioning of the International Monetary System written by Mr.Jacob A. Frenkel and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1996-04-24 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fiftieth anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference served as an opportunity to reappraise the desirability of strengthening the IMF's oversight of the functioning of the international monetary system. Whatever the design of an exchange rate system and the arrangements for the provision of international liquidity, it is widely accepted that to be effective such oversight must rest on a strong analytic foundation. These two volumes, edited by Jacob A. Frenkel and Morris Goldstein, present 30 analytic papers on the system as it functioned during 1987-91 and aim at conveying the flavor of those issues that commanded close attention in the Fund's research program.

Author : William S. Haraf
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780844737133
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monetary Policy for a Volatile Global Economy written by William S. Haraf and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1990 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the crucial relationships between domestic and international economic developments and on their implications for monetary, fiscal, and exchange rate policies. The volume includes Richard N.Cooper on challenges to the international monetary system, Hali Edison and Michael Melvin on the choice of an exchange rate system, Gottfried Haberler on international and European monetary systems, Alan C.Stockman on exchange rates and the current account, Guido Tabellini on export of an inflation tax; and Thomas D.Willett and Clas Wihlborg on international capital flows and the dollar. It is a companion volume to Monetary Policy for a Changing Financial Environment.

Author : C. Randall Henning
Publisher : Peterson Institute
ISBN 13 : 0881325775
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accountability and Oversight of US Exchange Rate Policy written by C. Randall Henning and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2008 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: