Reserves and baskets
By: Michael D. Bordo, Harold James
Contributors: James, Harold; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 17492; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 17492.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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