Crisis prevention and prosperity management for the world economy / Ralph C. Bryant.

• Superior document: Pragmatic choices for international financial governance ; pt. 1
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Bryant, Ralph C., 1938-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Bryant, Ralph C., 1938- Pragmatic choices for international financial governance ; pt. 1.
• Physical Description: vi, 171 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

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.