Reforming the international monetary system: a stock-flow-consistent approach

Sebastián Valdecantos and Gennaro Zezza

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Abstract: The emergence and persistence of large trade imbalances as well as the volatility of financial flows among countries have been attributed, at least in part, to the inadequacy of the current international monetary system after the breakdown of Bretton Woods. From a different perspective, the current eurozone crisis is also the result, in our view, of a flawed institutional setting. These problems call for reforms to mitigate or avoid the recessionary bias that is the outcome of current systems, as Keynes predicted in the discussion preceding the Bretton Woods agreements. In this paper we briefly review the evidence on international imbalances, and survey the rapidly growing literature on the subject. We introduce a set of models based on the stock-flow-consistent approach pioneered by Godley (1999) and Lavoie and Godley (2003). We discuss how to use these models to explore potential reform of the international monetary system.

Keywords: Sistema Monetario Internacional; Modelo de Flujos y Stocks Consistentes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 38(2), 2015, pp. 167-191

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