The subject of this paper is one about which I have written before, but this paper goes further than those published previously. It contemplates the gradual transformation of the global reserve regime by making the IMF’s quasi-currency, the SDR, the primary reserve asset of the international...

Exchange Rates and the Monetary System comprises a careful selection of Peter B. Kenen’s acclaimed papers on international monetary economics written over the past thirty years. The volume includes Professor Kenen’s theoretical and empirical essays on the functioning of the international...

The CMEA countries are starting to conduct their trade at world prices and in convertible currencies. These are crucial steps in economic reform but will worsen Eastern Europe's terms of trade and drive it into current account deficit with the U.S.S.R. Proposals have been made for a payments...

This paper asks how EMU will affect foreign-exchange markets,the demands for various key currencies, the behaviour of exchanges rates among them, and policy coordination. The advent of the Ecu as the single currency of the EC may reduce the vehicle role of the dollar in foreign-exchange markets....

In July 1999, the CEP held a second meeting of policymakers and thinkers to examine in greater detail aspects of the international financial architecture and proposals for its reform. This Special Report includes revised versions of the main papers presented, including those from Peter Kenen,...