International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1957
International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1957

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 1957-09-02

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1616351691

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This paper reviews key findings of the IMF’s Annual Report for the fiscal year ended April 30, 1957. The report highlights that boom conditions continued throughout 1956, sustained by an undercurrent of private business investment sufficiently strong to compensate for such weaknesses as appeared in some individual sectors. Any apprehensions, which might have been entertained in the early months of the year that the upward trend of business was soon to be reversed, were thus shown to be without foundation.

France and the Breakdown of the Bretton Woods International Monetary System
France and the Breakdown of the Bretton Woods International Monetary System

Author: Ms.Dominique Simard

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 1994-10-01

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1451935366

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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.

The International Monetary Fund 1945-1965
The International Monetary Fund 1945-1965

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 1996-02-29

Total Pages: 683

ISBN-13: 1451955251

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IMF economists work closely with member countries on a variety of issues. Their unique perspective on country experiences and best practices on global macroeconomic issues are often shared in the form of books on diverse topics such as cross-country comparisons, capacity building, macroeconomic policy, financial integration, and globalization.

A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System
A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System

Author: Michael D. Bordo

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 0226066908

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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.

This Time Is Different
This Time Is Different

Author: Carmen M. Reinhart

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2011-08-07

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0691152640

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An empirical investigation of financial crises during the last 800 years.

Preserving Financial Stability
Preserving Financial Stability

Author: Mr.Garry J. Schinasi

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2006-01-09

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781589063563

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Spurred by advances in information and computer technologies, financial liberalization and innovation took off inthe late 1970s. Although the changes in financial markets have been beneficial overall, our understanding of the new risks to financial stability lags behind, as demonstrated by the financial crises of the past couple of decades. The study of international financial stability - a public good - is still in its infancy. This pamphlet, aimed at stimulating further debate on the subject, proposes a definition of financial stability and a broad framework for safeguarding it without inhibiting its dynamic development or limiting its benefits.

IMF Staff papers
IMF Staff papers

Author: International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 1964-01-01

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1451947186

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This paper outlines the extent of the IMF with its present policies and practices or with some modification of those policies and practices that is capable of dealing satisfactorily with certain problems of international liquidity. Liquidity that is conditional in any of these senses may be somewhat less prized by the country possessing it than would be an equivalent amount of unconditional liquidity; but the imposition of such conditions may be for the general advantage of the international community, and may make countries having surpluses in their balances of payments readier to provide, or to facilitate the provision of, additional liquidity. An increased supply of the type of liquidity of which the use is subject to policy conditions will have somewhat different results. Although it will probably increase the amount and the financing of external deficits, even this is not certain. The various types of liquidity are to some extent substitutes for each other.

IMF History Volume 3 (1945-1965)
IMF History Volume 3 (1945-1965)

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 1996-02-29

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 1451972512

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This paper comprises documents relating to the history of the IMF, including some that preceded the drafting of the Articles of Agreement. The paper highlights that the first draft of Lord Keynes’ plan for a Clearing Union was circulated within the British Treasury on September 8, 1941. A fourth draft was given to Ministers on February 11, 1942. The first definitive version of Mr. White’s plan for a stabilization fund was a mimeographed draft dated April 1942. This covered both the IMF and the World Bank.