Aspects of the international banking safety net
By: by G.G. Johnson, with Richard K. Abrams.
Contributors: Abrams, Richard K.
Series: Occasional paper / International Monetary Fund,; no. 17; Occasional paper (International Monetary Fund) ;; no. 17.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Banks and banking, International.; Loans, Foreign.
Description: This paper focuses on one aspect of banks' willingness and ability to continue international intermediation. Banking history up to the 1930s was replete with crisis that entailed a disruption of banking activity, drastically altering the volume, direction, and terms of the flow of funds within and among national economies. The paper provides a qualitative assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the existing safegards for the continuity of international intermediation by banks.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 36.