A brief history of the international monetary system since Bretton Woods

Arbeitspapier

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'.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-141-3
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2016/97

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; International Economic Order and Integration ; Foreign Exchange ; International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions ; International Lending and Debt Problems ; International Policy Coordination and Transmission
• Thema: Bretton Woods agreement ; gold reserves ; foreign exchange reserves ; exchange rate system ; payments imbalances ; IMF credit lines

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2016/141-3
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/161481
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.05.2025, 05:45 MESZ