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Reserves and Baskets

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  • Michael D. Bordo
  • Harold James

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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.

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  • Michael D. Bordo & Harold James, 2011. "Reserves and Baskets," NBER Working Papers 17492, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:17492
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    1. Michael D. Bordo & Dominique Simard & Eugene N. White, 1995. "France and the Bretton Woods International Monetary System 1960 to 1968," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Jaime Reis (ed.), International Monetary Systems in Historical Perspective, chapter 7, pages 153-180, Palgrave Macmillan.
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    1. Pietro Alessandrini & Andrea Presbitero, 2012. "Low-Income Countries and an SDR-based International Monetary System," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 23(1), pages 129-150, February.
    2. Michele Fratianni, 2012. "The Future International Monetary System: Dominant Currencies or Supranational Money? An Introduction," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 23(1), pages 1-12, February.
    3. Rockoff, Hugh & White, Eugene N., 2012. "Monetary Regimes and Policy on a Global Scale: The Oeuvre of Michael D. Bordo," MPRA Paper 49672, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised May 2013.

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    • F02 - International Economics - - General - - - International Economic Order and Integration
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
    • F55 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - International Institutional Arrangements

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