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Is a G-3 Target Zone on Target for Emerging Markets? Would the exchange rate stability created by a target zone for the world's three most important currencies be in the best interests of emerging market countries? A recent study suggests such stability might come at the price of more volatile interest rates, making this a difficult question...   |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2002
Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Why Are G-3 Exchange Rates So Fickle? The mystery of the volatility of the world's three key currencies continues, despite leading economist Rudiger Dornbusch's path-breaking insights. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Stanley Fischer |
Exchange Rate Regimes: Is the Bipolar View Correct? During the past decade, many countries have changed their exchange rate regimes, moving from crisis-prone soft pegs to hard pegs or floating regimes. This trend is likely to continue, particularly among emerging market countries... |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
R.D. Asante & Paul Robert Masson |
The Pros and Cons of Expanded Monetary Union in West Africa A conversation with Jacqueline Irving of the IMF's External Relations Department... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Enzo Croce & Mohsin S. Khan |
Monetary Regimes and Inflation Targeting Inflation targeting---a framework for monetary policy that commits the central bank to achieving low inflation---has enjoyed considerable success among industrial countries in helping to maintain price stability... |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2003
Jbili & Kramarenko |
Should MENA Countries Float or Peg? As they open up their economies, MENA countries may need to rethink their exchange rate regimes |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002
Fasano & Iqbal |
Common Currency GCC (Cooperation Council of the Arab States of the Gulf) countries face fundamental choices as they head for monetary union. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2007
Leslie Lipschitz |
Wising Up about Finance With tighter links between national economies and global financial markets, better financial analysis is critical to macroeconomic management. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Jeffrey A. Frankel |
Anticipating the Next Crisis What can early warning systems be expected to deliver to predict the next economic crisis? |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2006
Laura Wallace |
Ahead of His Time An interview with economist Robert Mundell, who is widely regarded as a pioneer of modern international economics. |
Finance & Development
March 2011
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Ending Instability How monetary policy reforms helped propel five major Latin American countries from recurrent crises to economic stability. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2005
Carstens & Luis I. Jacome H. |
Taming the Monster How Latin America's central banks survived hyperinflation to become guardians of price stability. |
Finance & Development
June 2010
Eswar Prasad |
After the Fall As the debate over how best to manage monetary policy heats up, the once-sharp difference between advanced and emerging economies is blurring. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Ghosh & Ostry |
Choosing an Exchange Rate Regime A new look at an old question: Should countries fix, float, or choose something in between? |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Benjamin J. Cohen |
The Future of Reserve Currencies For nearly a century, the U.S. dollar has reigned supreme, but are those days over? |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Torsten Slok |
Can Monetary Policy Be Effective During Transition? Mongolia has undergone dramatic changes during its transition to a market economy, with fundamental restructuring in both the real economy and the financial sector. How effective is monetary policy in such a changing environment? |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001 |
Book reviews Robert Solomon's Money on the Move: The Revolution in International Finance Since 1980... Distributive Justice and Economic Development: The Case of Chile and Developing Countries... Ruth de Krivoy's Collapse: The Venezuelan Banking Crisis of '94... etc. |
TIME Asia
November 29, 2010
Bill Powell |
Twin Summits As the leaders of the world's most powerful countries headed home after a dispiriting summit, the world was fraught with economic peril. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Carlo Cottarelli & Jose Vinals |
Looking Ahead Countries must begin now to devise economic strategies to accompany the recovery. |
Finance & Development
December 2011
Florence Jaumotte |
Fixing the Flaws in EMU The euro area's long-term survival requires a fundamental transformation of policymaking |
Finance & Development
September 2008
Simon Johnson |
Straight Talk: Emerging Markets Emerge Emerging markets are now a key determinant of global growth. This is good news -- and a potential problem |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
James M. Boughton |
Globalization and the Silent Revolution of the 1980s During the 1980s, the economic policymakers of many countries underwent a dramatic change in thinking. How beneficial has this 'silent revolution' been, and what can policymakers and the international community do now to broaden and secure the gains it has brought? |
Finance & Development
September 2008
Prasad & Rajan |
Next Generation Financial Reforms for India A new report advocates a shake-up in India's financial system to underpin growth |
Finance & Development
June 2010
Duvvuri Subbarao |
Redefining Central Banking Central banks must distill lessons from the global crisis and make concrete reforms. |
The Motley Fool
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Brian Lawler |
So Long, Milton Milton Friedman, perhaps the best-known academic economist of modern times, died yesterday at the age of 94. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Charles Wyplosz |
Viewpoint: The Euro's Finest Hour? The euro has proved a safe haven for countries lucky enough to have made it into this exclusive club in time. |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 24, 2003 |
The Euro's March to... Where? In the case of the euro, one can never overlook the political agenda. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Camilla Andersen |
Navigating Unchartered Waters An interview with Otmar Issing, the first chief economist of the European Central Bank, on being cautious about claiming victory for monetary union. |
Finance & Development
March 2008
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Back to Basics The exchange rate regime has a big impact on world trade and financial flows, thereby making it a central piece of any national economic policy framework. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2003 |
Book reviews The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third-World Development Policies, by Eberhard Reusse... Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium... Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East... etc. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002
Lipschitz et al. |
The Tosovsky Dilemma: Capital Surges in Transition Countries Transition countries that open themselves up to global capital markets are vulnerable to large and potentially erratic flows. Such flows should not be seen as one-off destabilizing events: they are intrinsic to the transition process and therefore need to be factored into policy formulation. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Koshy Mathai |
Back to Basics: What Is Monetary Policy? MONETARY policy has lived under many guises. But however it may appear, it generally boils down to adjusting the supply of money in the economy to achieve some combination of inflation and output stabilization. |
Finance & Development
March 2011
Nicolas Eyzaguirre |
Sustaining Latin America's Transformation Building on recent successes, Latin America now has a chance to raise its profile in the global marketplace. |
On Wall Street
December 1, 2009
Milton Ezrati |
Emerging Economies Are Even Better Than Advertised Not only have emerging markets resumed their place as leading engines of global growth, they have also followed monetary and fiscal policies that are much more prudent than those of the United States, Japan and most other developed nations. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Giovanni Dell'Ariccia |
Asset Price Booms: How Can They Best Be Managed? Not all booms are alike -- making the right call on which policies to deploy depends on how assets are held and who is exposed to a possible bust |
Finance & Development
March 2007 |
Book Reviews The European Economy Since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond... Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry... etc. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
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Latin America: When Is Fiscal Stimulus Right? For some Latin American countries stimulus is appropriate during the global economic crisis. But for others the answer is less clear. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2005
Alfred Schipke |
Building on CAFTA How the free trade pact can help foster Central America's economic integration. |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
Unconventional Behavior Innovative balance sheet policies of central banks helped during the recession, but they should be used only in exceptional circumstances. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002
Kose & Prasad |
Thinking Big How can small states hold their own in an increasingly globalized economy? |
Finance & Development
September 2011
Celine Allard |
More Europe, Not Less The euro area is learning from its debt crisis that it needs a more centralized approach to fiscal and financial policies. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Anne Y. Kester |
Improving the Framework for Reporting on International Reserves During the international financial crises of the late 1990s, deficiencies were uncovered in the publicly available information on countries' international reserves. A new template and operational guidelines have been developed to promote improved disclosure of such data. |
Finance & Development
September 2007 |
Book Reviews Ethics and Finance: Finding a Moral Compass in Business Today... Legal Foundations of International Monetary Stability... Economics the Caribbean way... etc. |
Finance & Development
June 2010
Linda Yueh |
A Stronger China China can emerge from the crisis stronger if it increases domestic demand and promotes global integration. |
On Wall Street
February 1, 2010
Milton Ezrati |
Emerging Markets Lead The Charge Remarkably, given the general mood earlier in the year, things turned out well for equity investors in 2009, especially in emerging markets. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Robert A. Feldman & C. Maxwell Watson |
Central Europe: From Transition to EU Membership The Central European countries have made considerable progress with the transition to a market economy and now face the challenge of developing macroeconomic policy frameworks on the road to EU accession. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Barry Eichengreen |
Viewpoint: Stress Test for the Euro Countries tempted to abandon the European currency face formidable barriers. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003 |
"Central Bankers Have to Explain the Need for Reform" How will Jean-Claude Trichet run the European Central Bank? Bank watchers are poring over his comments for clues. Here, in excerpts from a BusinessWeek interview and in testimony given to the European Parliament, are his views. |
On Wall Street
April 1, 2013
Milton Ezrati |
The So-Called Currency War Some U.S. trade competitors may see efforts to boost liquidity as intentional manipulation of the dollar. |
BusinessWeek
December 2, 2010
Peter Coy |
Can the Euro Survive? The euro zone -- born of cultural similarity -- is threatened by its economic inequalities. It doesn't have to be. |
