Author : Ms.Dominique Simard
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451935366
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and national and international economic developments.
Author : Benn Steil
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 2013-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691149097
Recounts the events of the Bretton Woods accords, presents portaits of the two men at the center of the drama, and reveals Harry White's admiration for Soviet economic planning and communications with intelligence officers.
Author : Michael D. Bordo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226066908
At the close of the Second World War, when industrialized nations faced serious trade and financial imbalances, delegates from forty-four countries met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in order to reconstruct the international monetary system. In this volume, three generations of scholars and policy makers, some of whom participated in the 1944 conference, consider how the Bretton Woods System contributed to unprecedented economic stability and rapid growth for 25 years and discuss the problems that plagued the system and led to its eventual collapse in 1971. The contributors explore adjustment, liquidity, and transmission under the System; the way it affected developing countries; and the role of the International Monetary Fund in maintaining a stable rate. The authors examine the reasons for the System's success and eventual collapse, compare it to subsequent monetary regimes, such as the European Monetary System, and address the possibility of a new fixed exchange rate for today's world.
Author : Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231157649
Jomo Kwame Sundaram is assistant secretary general for economic development at the United Nations and research coordinator for the G24 Intergovernmental Group on International Monetary Affairs and Development. In 2007 he was awarded the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. --Book Jacket.
Author : Eric Monnet
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1498326773
Why did monetary authorities hold large gold reserves under Bretton Woods (1944–1971) when only the US had to? We argue that gold holdings were driven by institutional memory and persistent habits of central bankers. Countries continued to back currency in circulation with gold reserves, following rules of the pre-WWII gold standard. The longer an institution spent in the gold standard (and the older the policymakers), the stronger the correlation between gold reserves and currency. Since dollars and gold were not perfect substitutes, the Bretton Woods system never worked as expected. Even after radical institutional change, history still shapes the decisions of policymakers.
Author : Francis J. Gavin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807828236
"Gavin demonstrates that Bretton Woods was in fact a highly politicized system that was prone to crisis and required constant intervention and controls to continue functioning. More important, postwar monetary relations were not a salve to political tensions, as is often contended.
Author : Jaime Reis
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 1995-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
After a century and a half of efforts at constructing arrangements and rules for international monetary interaction, present-day national authorities do not seem to have come much closer to achieving the aim of enduring exchange rate stability combined with a good macroeconomic performance. A distinguished group of economists and economic historians offers new insights into the working of the most important of such experiences, including nineteenth century bimetallism, the 'classical' gold standard, Bretton Woods and the European Monetary System.
Author : Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0300236794
Commentaries by top scholars alongside the most important documents and speeches concerning the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 The two world wars brought an end to a long-standing system of international commerce based on the gold standard. After the First World War, the weaknesses in the gold standard contributed to hyperinflation, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism, and ultimately World War II. The Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 arose out of the Allies' desire to design a postwar international economic system that would provide a basis for prosperity, trade, and worldwide economic development. Alongside important documents and speeches concerning the adoption and evolution of the Bretton Woods system, this volume includes lively, readable, original essays on such topics as why the gold standard was doomed, how Bretton Woods encouraged the adoption of Keynesian economics, how the agreements influenced late-twentieth-century ideas of international development, and why the agreements ultimately had to give way to other arrangements.
Author : Hazlitt
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1610161432
Author : Armand Van Dormael
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 1978-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349036285
