Crisis prevention and prosperity management for the world economy - Bryant, Ralph C. 1938- (Brookings Institution Press, 2004)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-163) and index
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
Bryant, a senior fellow in the economic studies program at the Brookings Institution, examines supranational surveillance and lending intermediation as key elements of the reform of the international financial system. He argues that national governments and international organizations need to upgrade their collective efforts at financial crisis pre