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Fund's limited gold sale. They noted their expectation that at least SDR 4.4 billion of the profits would be placed in an … (LICs), including the distribution to the Fund's membership of up to SDR 0.7 billion from the profits linked to gold sales …
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This paper outlines legal developments related to floating currencies, gold, and special drawing rights (SDRs) in the … IMF. The Articles of the Fund require each member to establish a par value for its currency in terms of gold as a common … July 1, 1944, the effect of which is simply to express the par value indirectly in terms of gold. In this paper …
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This paper examines legal developments in area of floating currencies, special drawing rights, and gold in the IMF. It …
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There are few areas of economic policy-making in which the returns to good decisions are so high-and the punishment of bad decisions so cruel-as in the management of natural resource wealth. Rich endowments of oil, gas and minerals have set some countries on courses of sustained and robust...
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the gold value of the IMF's assets. Each member of the IMF is bound to maintain the gold value of the IMF's holdings of …
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The 2008 crisis underscored the interconnectedness of the international business cycle, with U.S. shocks leading to the largest global slowdown since the 1930s. We estimate spillover effects across major advanced country regions in a structural VAR (SVAR) using pre-crisis data. Our new method...
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This paper highlights key issues pertinent for the understanding of international effects of domestic tax policies and of international tax harmonization. The analytical framework adopts the saving-investment balance approach to the analysis of international economic interdependence focusing on...
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unit of account. The gold standard was such a system, but suffered from gold’s fluctuating relative value and the costly … need to redeem money for gold. This paper explores monetary standards with relatively constant real values in which the …
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