Toward a New International Financial Architecture: A Practical Post-Asia Agenda

Toward A New International Financial Architecture: A Practical Post-Asia Agenda -- Barry Eichengreen, Institute for International Economics

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Authors: Barry Eichengreen

Toward A New International Financial Architecture: A Practical Post-Asia Agenda

International Finance/ Macroeconomics: International Monetary Fund

by Barry Eichengreen February 1999 • 216 pp. ISBN paper 0-88132-270-9 • $20.00

Buy This Book Online and Save 20% Off List Price Was $25.00, now $20.00 Discount applies to online purchases only. The Asian financial crisis and the global economic turmoil that followed it have highlighted the need to avert financial crises and News Release resolve them quickly if they do occur. This book addresses current concerns that existing institutional arrangements, including the "Skillful and Bretton Woods institutions, can no longer adequately cope with comprehensive ... (the today's world of high capital mobility. It provides a critical book) offers an assessment of competing proposals to better predict, forestall, and especially lucid account resolve international financial crises and outlines a practical and of the Asian financial crisis." pragmatic agenda for reform. The recommendations are based on the belief that financial markets can malfunction, creating a Richard N. Cooper compelling case for a financial safety net (and therefore a role for Foreign Affairs the IMF), but also creating problems of moral hazard that must be addressed. "The details of the straightforward approach (to reforming the international financial architecture) are laid out with admirable clarity ..."

Contents Preface Acknowledgments

Clive Crook National Journal "It offers a concise analysis of the main problems ailing today's international financial system and a host of modest, but useful, suggestions for reform."

1. Introduction 140.9KB 2. Summary of Recommendations 193.0KB 3. Standards for Crisis Prevention 228.3KB 4. Banks and Capital Flows 273.8KB

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5. Banking in the Private Sector 237.9KB "This book is excellent, thorough, sensible, wellwritten, with a point of view ... (It) will become a standard reference in the subject."

6. What Won't Work 225.8KB 7. What the IMF Should Do (And What We Should Do About the IMF) 266.4KB

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International Finance/ Macroeconomics: Global Financial Crises International Finance/ Macroeconomics: Finance, Investment, and Debt

Global Economic Effects of the Asian Currency Devaluations Case for an International Banking Standard Exchange Stabilization Fund: Slush Money or War Chest? World Capital Markets: Challenge to the G-10 International Financial Architecture: What's New? What's Missing? Curbing the Boom-Bust Cycle: Stabilizing Capital Flows to Emerging Markets

Toward A New International Financial Architecture: A Practical Post-Asia Agenda -- Barry Eichengreen, Institute for International Economics

Chief Economist and Appendix A-C 456.2KB Managing Director The Chase Manhattan Bank References "... a very useful book which provides a readable, balanced assessment of the recent Asian financial crisis ... (the recommendations) appear to be influencing key poicymakers in governments and international financial institutions."

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