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Governance of the IMF : Decision Making, Institutional Oversight, Transparency and Accountability
International Monetary Fund - 2002
The author-a top decision maker at the IMF for two decades-first focuses on the system of quotas and voting power in … the IMF and concludes that it calls for reforms to enhance equity among the membership. He then examines decision making … Financial Committee. In that context, the author also comments on the impact on IMF decision making of the activities of groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403196
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Banking soundness and monetary policy : issues and experiences in the global economy ; papers presented at the Seventh Seminar on Central Banking Washington, D.C. January 27-31, 19...
Enoch, Charles (ed.); Green, John H. (contributor) - International Monetary Fund - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013548662
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Central Banking Legislation : A Collection of Central Bank, Monerary and Bankin Law, Volume II
International Monetary Fund - 2003
This paper discusses the central banking, monetary, and banking laws for 17 countries in Europe, an area where many of the techniques that are now universally used in regulating or controlling the supply of money and credit were developed. The complete text of the basic central bank law of each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397640
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Potential Role SDR Diversified Currency Portfolios Central Bank
International Monetary Fund - 1988
This paper compares the SDR in terms of its risk-return characteristics relative to those of its five components and, on this basis, finds that the SDR has performed favorably over the period under review. In addition, several efficient portfolios including the SDR and its components are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396007
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Per Jacobsson Lecture : Central Banking in the Crisis: Conceptual Convergence and Open Questions on Unconventional Monetary Policy
International Monetary Fund - 2014
demanding and difficult times, characterized by a succession of shocks unseen, in the advanced economies, since World War II …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014411203
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Central Banking Lessons from the Crisis
International Monetary Fund - 2010
The broader governance reform debate-which goes beyond quotas to issues such as engagement by high-level policymakers, Fund management selection, Board structure, rules and accountability-has not got very far in garnering a consensus at the Executive Board. This is the case even though, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410489
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IMF Governance Reform
International Monetary Fund - 2010
This paper reviews progress under the Fund's strengthened cooperative strategy on overdue financial obligations. Since the last review, total arrears to the Fund declined by SDR 17.5 million to SDR 1,309.5 million. Payments to the Fund by Sudan and Zimbabwe were in excess of new obligations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410203
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Market Information and Signaling in Central Bank Operations, Or, How often Should a Central Bank Intervene?
International Monetary Fund - 1997
A central bank must decide on the frequency with which it will conduct open market operations and the variability in short-term money market that it will allow. It is shown how the optimal operating procedure balances the value of attaining an immediate target and broadcasting the central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400555
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Latin American Central Bank Reform : Progress and Challenges
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This study takes stock of the institutional reform of monetary policy in Latin America since the early 1990s. It argues that strengthening the legal independence of central banks, together with macroeconomic policies, was instrumental in reducing inflation from three-digit annual rates in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400741
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Anticipation and Surprises in Central Bank Interest Rate Policy : The Case of the Bundesbank
International Monetary Fund - 1998
Market reaction to a change in official interest rates will depend on the extent to which the change is anticipated, and on how it is interpreted as a signal of future policy. In this paper, a technique is developed to separate the anticipated and unanticipated components of such changes and is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400820