Product Description: China's exchange rate policy has a great impact on the economies of the United States and the rest of the world. This important new book, based on an October 2007 conference, looks at this issue in great detail.The book has four sections...read more

Product Description: In most of the currency crises of the 1990s, the largest output falls have occurred in those emerging economies with large currency mismatches, a phenomenon that occurs when assets and liabilities are denominated in different currencies such that net worth is sensitive to changes in the exchange rate...read more

Product Description: Classroom displays are a vitally important aspect of nursery and primary school life, but many teachers lack the time - and sometimes the confidence - to plan and prepare the necessary materials. Lynn Taylor's inspirational ideas and practical suggestons will save hours of preparation time, and give schools a ready-made collection of starter ideas - and photocopiable projects - with which to transform the appearance of the classroom...read more

Product Description: The European currency crises of 1992-93, the Mexican crisis of 1994-95, and especially the Asian/global crisis of 1997-98, have all contributed to a heightened interest in the early warning signals of financial crises. This pathbreaking study presents a comprehensive battery of empirical tests on the performance of alternative early warning indicators for emerging-market economies that should prove useful in the construction of a more effective global warning system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This report contains the findings and recommendations of an independent blue-ribbon commission on the future international financial architecture. The commission was sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-chaired by Peter G...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This study presents the case for an international banking standard (IBS) to deal with the rash of banking crises in developing countries. Over the past 15 years, almost three-fourths of the IMF's member countries have experienced at least one serious bout of banking problems; there have been at least a dozen developing country episodes where the costs of these crises amounted to 10 percent or more of the country's GDP; and the total public sector resolution costs of developing-country banking crises have been estimated to be $250 billion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The fiftieth anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference served as an opportunity to reappraise the desirability of strengthening the IMF’s oversight of the functioning of the international monetary system. Whatever the design of an exchange rate system and the arrangements for the provision of international liquidity, it is widely accepted that to be effective such oversight must rest on a strong analytic foundation...read more

Product Description: Global currency markets have remained unsettled. The dollar hit record lows against both the yen and the mark in 1995. The Mexican crisis led to a free fall of the peso. Renewed tensions in the European Monetary System required devaluations in Spain and Portugal...read more

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Product Description: Proceedings of an (unnamed) conference, Washington, D.C., 13-15.1.1991. Published in association with De Nederlandsche Bank

Product Description: This study identifies the key characteristics of a successful exchange rate system. It focuses on regimes in the industrial countries and considers the implications for the operation of the international monetary system.

Product Description: The growing integration of capital markets has strengthened incenitives for greater international coordination of economic and financial policies. Structural changes in these financial markets, however, may have undermined the effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policy and complicated market access by developing countries...read more

Product Description: Since the five largest industrial democracies concluded the Plaza Agreement in 1985, the theory and practice of international economic policy coordination has become the subject of spirited academic and public-policy debate. While some view policy coordination as crucial for the construction of an improved international monetary system, others fear that it risks delaying or weakening the implementation of macroeconomic and structural policies...read more