International Monetary Reform and Exchange Rate Management


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Sequencing Financial Sector Reforms


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Financial sector liberalization can spur economic growth and development, but reforms to liberalize the financial sector can also entail risks if they are not properly designed and implemented. One of the central questions for countries reforming their financial systems is how to sequence the reforms so as to maximize the benefits of liberalization and contain its risks. Edited by R. Barry Johnston and V. Sundararajan of the IMF's Monetary and Exchange Affairs Department, this book attempts to answer this and related questions by drawing lessons from financial sector reforms in selected countries. In particular, the book surveys financial sector reforms in Indonesia, Thailand, and Korea between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s.




International Monetary Reform


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This volume is a contribution to the debates surrounding international monetary reform. The author examines and analyses the workings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and suggests how the international monetary system could, through changes to the IMF, be reshaped and reformed. Chapters examine the Palais-Royal report, explain how the IMF could be granted unlimited bailout powers to confront a global crisis, propose an exchange-rate based mechanism by which the international community could discipline excessive imbalances, examine alternative possibilities for the supply of future reserves, advocate `enthronement of the Special Drawing Right’, and discuss the obstacles in the way of such an ambitious reform agenda.










Reference Rates and the International Monetary System


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Growing global imbalances threaten to induce a collapse of the dollar, which could in turn produce a severe recession in the rest of the world. This crisis could force countries to say "never again" and search for a system to prevent similar disasters. The system that could do so is a reference rate system—where countries' authorities are forbidden from intervening in order to push the exchange rate too far from what is termed the "reference rate." It could help a country's authorities manage its exchange rate to avoid large misalignments, assist the private sector in forming more dependable expectations of future exchange rates and thus to manage their businesses more efficiently in a world of floating exchange rates, and aid the International Monetary Fund in designing and managing an effective system of multilateral surveillance. The world economy would function better as a result, with less chance of the global imbalances leading to a world recession.




IMF Staff papers


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This paper examines the proposition that flexible exchange rates are more (less) inflationary than a system of fixed exchange rates. The paper first discusses possible effects of a change in the exchange rate regime on the price level. It examines the two arguments that flexible exchange rates will increase world prices both by increasing costs of production and by reducing either the official or private demand for money. The effects of the exchange rate regime on the continuing rate of inflation are discussed next and are divided into those that affect a government's policy preferences in the demand-management area and those that affect the perceived short-term trade-off between inflation and unemployment. the paper concludes that despite the numerous arguments and counterarguments and despite the importance attached to this issue in discussions of international monetary reform, the type of exchange rate system is likely to have little influence on the average rate of world inflation.




International Monetary Policy


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Monograph on international monetary policy trends and the international monetary system since 1944 - covers the planning and implementation of the bretton woods system, the IMF, problems of balance of payments adjustment, exchange rate management and international liquidity, etc., and considers plans for international monetary reform. References.