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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryant, Ralph C., 1938-

Series:

Bryant, Ralph C., 1938- Pragmatic choices for international financial governance ; pt. 1.

Pragmatic choices for international financial governance ; pt. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital movements.

International finance.

Financial crises.

International Monetary Fund.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 upgrade their collective efforts at financial crisis pre

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-163) and index.

ISBN:

9786610813124

9781280813122

1280813121

9780815797579

0815797575

OCLC:

559806549