Cloth: 978-0-226-06587-8 | Electronic: 978-0-226-06690-5
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226066905.001.0001
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The contributors explore adjustment, liquidity, and transmission under the System; the way it affected developing countries; and the role of the International Monetary Fund in maintaining a stable rate. The authors examine the reasons for the System's success and eventual collapse, compare it to subsequent monetary regimes, such as the European Monetary System, and address the possibility of a new fixed exchange rate for today's world.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
I. Overviews and Origins
1. The Bretton Woods International Monetary System: A Historical Overview
2. Bretton Woods and Its Precursors: Rules versus Discretion in the History of International Monetary Regimes
3. The Political Origins of Bretton Woods
II. Bretton Woods in Operation
4. The Adjustment Mechanism
5. The Provision of Liquidity in the Bretton Woods System
6. International Transmission under Bretton Woods
7. The Role of International Organizations in the Bretton Woods System
8. Devaluation Controversies in the Developing Countries: Lessons from the Bretton Woods Era
9. The Collapse of the Bretton Woods Fixed Exchange Rate System
10. Panel Session I: Retrospectives
III. The Legacy of Bretton Woods
11. Interest Differentials under Bretton Woods and the Post–Bretton Woods Float: The Effects of Capital Controls and Exchange Risk
12. Attitudes toward Inflation and the Viability of Fixed Exchange Rates: Evidence from the EMS
13. Panel Session II: Implications for International Monetary Reform
IV. Conclusion
14. Epilogue: Three Perspectives on the Bretton Woods System
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index