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International reserves. Needs and availability. Papers and proceedings (of the) Seminar at the International Monetary Fund, June 1-3, 1970

1970

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Users' Guide to the SDR : A Manual of Transactions and Operations in Special Drawing Rights

International Monetary Fund - 1995

This guide explains to participants in the Special Drawing Rights Department and prescribed holders of SDRs the transactions and operations permitted under the IMF's Articles of Agreement and applicable decisions of the Executive Board

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Floating Currencies, Gold, and SDR's : Some Recent Legal Developments

International Monetary Fund - 1976

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 denominator. Alternatively, the par value may be...

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Thoughts on An international Monetary Fund Based Fully on the SDR

International Monetary Fund - 1979

This paper discusses the possibility of an IMF that would be based fully on the special drawing right (SDR). The paper explores the basic economic justification for a General Department restructured in this way, the broad outline of the structure that would have to be established, the liquidity...

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Floating Currencies, SDR's & Gold Further Legal Developments

International Monetary Fund - 1977

This paper examines legal developments in area of floating currencies, special drawing rights, and gold in the IMF. It highlights that the breakdown of the par value system of the original Articles of the IMF and the failure of the IMF's efforts to substitute a comparable system based on central...

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International Reserve Currencies

International Monetary Fund - 1989

We study the composition of central bank holdings of foreign reserves when the level of currency riskiness is endogenously determined by economic structure and policymaker preferences in reserve issuing countries. Examination of the behavior of official foreign reserves of the industrial and...

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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...

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In Search of a Monetary Anchor : A ""New"" Monetary Standard

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper explores recent versions of older ideas for stabilizing the value of money based on an independently defined 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...

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2015 External Sector Report

International Monetary Fund - 2015

After narrowing modestly in 2013, the global scale of current account imbalances, and of excess imbalances, held steady in 2014. Over the last several years, while the country composition of imbalances has rotated somewhat, overall there has been little progress on reducing excess imbalances....

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2016 External Sector Report

International Monetary Fund - 2016

.S. outlook led to a further appreciation of the USD and a depreciation of the yen and the euro. The sharp decline in commodity … widening of current account imbalances was largely driven by systemic economies. Surpluses in Japan, the euro area and China … expanded in 2015. External positions in the U.S. and Japan moved from being broadly in line with fundamentals to being …

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