Crisis prevention and prosperity management for the world economy

Crisis prevention and prosperity management for the world economy / Ralph C. Bryant.

Bryant, a senior fellow in the economic studies program at the Brookings Institution, examines supranational surveillance and lending intermediation as key elements of the reform of the international financial system. He argues that national governments and international organizations need to upgrad...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bryant, Ralph C., 1938-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2004.
Series:Bryant, Ralph C., 1938- Turbulent waters.
Bryant, Ralph C., 1938- Pragmatic choices for international financial governance ; pt. 1.
Subjects:
International Monetary Fund.
International Monetary Fund
Capital movements.
International finance.
Financial crises.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Economics.
Capital movements
Financial crises
International finance
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Collective surveillance : rationale and basic questions
  • Venues for intergovernmental cooperation : general considerations
  • Institutional dimensions of supranational surveillance
  • The IMF and other international organizations as traffic monitors and adjustment referees
  • Soft or hard guidelines?
  • Improving analytical foundations
  • Dissemination of information : transparency versus confidentiality
  • The individual nation's choice of exchange regime
  • Guidelines for cross-border financial transactions
  • Use of financial sector assessments in broader surveillance of a nation's economic policies
  • Explicit coordination of national macroeconomic policies?
  • Evolution of macro-surveillance for the world economy
  • Lending intermediation among national governments : general considerations
  • Lending intermediation and surveillance by the IMF
  • Should the IMF's mandate be narrowed to crisis vulnerability?
  • Should the IMF's mandate be broadened?
  • IMF lending facilities
  • IMF lending : an overview
  • The IMF : whose institution?
  • IMF governance : distribution of quotas, voting power, and constituencies
  • Aggregate size of IMF resources.

Similar Items