A brief history of the international monetary system since Bretton Woods

This paper provides a historical background to contemporary debates on the international monetary system: their genesis, similarities, and differences of problems it has faced at different times. It looks sequentially at the design of the Bretton Woods system; the tensions it faced since the 1960s a...

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Main Author: José Antonio Ocampo
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Online Access:http://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/wp2016-97.pdf
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spelling ftrepec:oai:RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp2016-97 2023-05-15T17:31:44+02:00 A brief history of the international monetary system since Bretton Woods José Antonio Ocampo http://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/wp2016-97.pdf unknown http://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/wp2016-97.pdf preprint ftrepec 2020-12-04T13:31:01Z This paper provides a historical background to contemporary debates on the international monetary system: their genesis, similarities, and differences of problems it has faced at different times. It looks sequentially at the design of the Bretton Woods system; the tensions it faced since the 1960s and its collapse in the early 1970s; the management of the collapse, the failure to agree on a new system, and the resulting non-system that followed; the maturing of these ad hoc arrangements, and the reforms after the North Atlantic financial crisis and debates on how to build up a broader global 'financial safety net'. Bretton Woods agreement, gold reserves, foreign exchange reserves, exchange rate system, payments imbalances, IMF credit lines Report North Atlantic RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
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description This paper provides a historical background to contemporary debates on the international monetary system: their genesis, similarities, and differences of problems it has faced at different times. It looks sequentially at the design of the Bretton Woods system; the tensions it faced since the 1960s and its collapse in the early 1970s; the management of the collapse, the failure to agree on a new system, and the resulting non-system that followed; the maturing of these ad hoc arrangements, and the reforms after the North Atlantic financial crisis and debates on how to build up a broader global 'financial safety net'. Bretton Woods agreement, gold reserves, foreign exchange reserves, exchange rate system, payments imbalances, IMF credit lines
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