Reserves and Baskets /

We discuss three well known plans that were offered in the twentieth century to provide an artificial replacement for gold and key currencies as international reserves: Keynes' Bancor, the SDR and the Ecu( predecessor to the euro).The latter two of these reserve substitutes were institutionaliz...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Bordo, Michael D.
Körperschaft:
National Bureau of Economic Research
Weitere Verfasser:
James, Harold
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.
Zusammenfassung:
We discuss three well known plans that were offered in the twentieth century to provide an artificial replacement for gold and key currencies as international reserves: Keynes' Bancor, the SDR and the Ecu( predecessor to the euro).The latter two of these reserve substitutes were institutionalized but neither replaced the dollar as the principal medium of international reserve.
Umfang:
1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Anmerkungen:
October 2011.
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