This works deals with the analysis and classification of the existing theoretical and empirical models describing the factors of establishing reserve currencies, and their role in today's global payment system. The important part of the study is devoted to the concept of a regional reserve...

This work deals with the analysis of classification of the existing theoretical and empirical models describing the factors of establishing reserve currencies, and their role in today’s global payment system. The important part of the study is devoted to the concept of a regional reserve...

Работа посвящена анализу и классификации существующих теоретических и эмпирических моделей, описывающих факторы становления резервных валют, их роли в...

Russian Abstract: Кризисные явления 2007–2009 гг. продемонстрировали, что финансовые рынки ведущих экономик мира могут быть подвержены масштабным системным потрясениям....

This paper will propose a plan to reform international finance – the World Financial Authority (WFA) Plan. Under such a plan, the IMF and other existing international financial institutions would be reformed and coordinated around a newly created WFA. The WFA would have two core functions....

In recent years the discussion of the role played by reserve currencies in the world economy has reached a new level. Problems caused by the domination of a single reserve currency have not yet been resolved and it remains unclear when and how they will be solved in the future. At the same time,...

This paper analyzes the causes of the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone and examines the policy alternatives confronting euro area governments. It suggests that pooling fiscal risks, creating an EU Treasury and issuing jointly-backed euro bonds is an optimal solution and the inevitable...

In this paper we connect the events of the last twelve months, "The Panic of 2008" as it has been called, to the demand for international reserves. In previous work, we have shown that international reserve demand can be rationalized by a central bank's desire to backstop the broad money supply...

This paper presents evidence that the bid-ask spreads in euro rates increased relative to the corresponding bid-ask spreads in the German mark (DM) prior to the creation of the currency union. This comes with a decrease in transaction volume in the euro rates relative to the previous DM rates....

In this paper we investigate the skirmishes that the US dollar and the euro had from 2007 to 2011 and, in particular, the two distinct sharp falls that the single currency had in 2008 and 2010. We basically consider how impulses coming from domestic money markets impact on the USD/EUR exchange...