Fund Transactions and Reserve Creation
December 1, 1992
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Summary
This paper describes the effects of Fund transactions on members’ external reserves, estimates the net reserve creation or absorption by the Fund in the 1980s, and compares the role of the Fund in this respect with that of other sources of international reserves.
Subject: Central banks, Currencies, Freely usable currencies, International reserves, Money, Reserve assets, Reserve positions
Keywords: Currencies, currency exchange, deutsche mark, foreign exchange, Freely usable currencies, Fund resource, fund transaction, International reserves, Reserve assets, Reserve positions, SDR conversion, SDR holding, SDR transaction, SDR transfer, tranche position, usable currency, WP
Pages:
28
Volume:
1992
DOI:
Issue:
107
Series:
Working Paper No. 1992/107
Stock No:
WPIEA1071992
ISBN:
9781451946741
ISSN:
1018-5941
Notes
Describes the effects of Fund transactions on members' external reserves and estimates the net reserve creation or absorption by the Fund in the 1980s.
