Bryant, Ralph C., 1938-

Crisis prevention and prosperity management for the world economy [electronic resource] / Ralph C. Bryant. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004. - vi, 171 p. : ill. - Pragmatic choices for international financial governance ; pt. 1 . - Bryant, Ralph C., 1938- Pragmatic choices for international financial governance ; pt. 1. .

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

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.


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International Monetary Fund.


Capital movements.
International finance.
Financial crises.


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