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Currency Amounts in the SDR Basket : Proposed Changes to the Rounding Methodology
International Monetary Fund - 2016
Currency amounts are used to determine the daily value of the SDR. Currency amounts are the number of units of each currency in the SDR basket. The value of the SDR (in U.S. dollars) is the sum of these amounts, valued at daily exchange rates of the currencies against the U.S. dollar. These...
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Criteria for Broadening the SDR Currency Basket
International Monetary Fund - 2011
The paper explores the pros and cons of maintaining the current 'freely usable currency' criterion, and clarifies indicators for assessing it. The freely usable concept and its two key elements-currencies should be "widely used" and "widely traded"-are set out in the Articles and serve important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410363
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Monetary policy in dollarized economies
Baliño, Tomás J. T. (ed.); Bennett, Adam (contributor);  … - International Monetary Fund - 1999
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The SDR Interest Rate Basket : Proposed Change of the Representative Interest Rate for the Euro and Amendment to Rule T-1(C)
International Monetary Fund - 2014
The three-month Eurepo interest rate, the euro component of the SDR interest rate basket, will be discontinued as of … representative interest rate instrument of the euro area in the SDR interest rate basket since 2006. However, faced with a … secondary market yield curve covering euro area government bonds rated either investment grade or AA and above. In staff's view …
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Treatment of Exchange Rate Issues in Bilateral Surveillance : A Stocktaking
International Monetary Fund - 2006
Review the quality of the Fund staff's analysis and policy advice on exchange rate issues. The Fund is sometimes criticized for not taking a sufficiently clear position on several exchange rate issues, ranging from the assessment of the level of exchange rates to the description of exchange rate...
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New Rates From New Weights
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This paper describes the result and the methodology of updating nominal and real effective exchange rate weights on the basis of trade data over 1999-2001. The underlying framework is an updated version of the IMF''s current effective exchange rate calculation, which uses weights largely based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400539
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Exchange Rate Arrangements and Monetary Policy
International Monetary Fund - 1988
This paper examines the relationship between monetary and exchange rate policies by considering the factors that have led the authorities in developed and developing countries in Asia to alter their use of monetary policy instruments and exchange rate arrangements since the mid-1970s. There is...
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Exchange Rate Volatility and World Trade
International Monetary Fund - 1984
increase in protectionist pressures, and the disappointing performance of world trade, renewed concern has been expressed about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014406218
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Exchange Arrangements and Foreign Exchange Markets : Developments and Issues
International Monetary Fund - 2003
This paper reviews developments and issues in the exchange arrangements and currency convertibility of IMF members. Against the backdrop of continuing financial globalization and a series of emerging market crises since 1997, there have been important changes in the evolution of exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404579
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Dollars, Debt, and Deficits : Sixty Years After Bretton Woods
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This book examines the challenges facing the international monetary and financial system, as well as the future role of the Bretton Woods institutions in addressing those challenges. The volume is based on the proceedings of a 2004 conference cosponsored by the Banco de Espana and the...
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