The Rôle of the International Monetary Fund in Promoting Price Stability

Walter R. Gardner
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Chapter Chapter 18 in Inflation, 1962, pp 285-292 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Inflation is primarily a matter of national policy. And in a closed economy the International Monetary Fund would have no role to play. But, as we all know, national economies are linked to one another by their exchange rates and by the complex of international transactions in goods, services, transfers and financial claims which are carried on at those rates of exchange. Since national economies are bound together in this way, they must broadly keep abreast of each other in their price experience. Or rather they would have to do so were it not for such impediments to international competition as quotas, tariffs and exchange restrictions; and also were it not for the fact that exchange rates can themselves be altered to compensate for differential rates of inflation.

Keywords: Exchange Rate; International Monetary Fund; Banking System; Prime Mover; Monetary Authority (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1962
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08455-5_18

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