IMF Working Papers

Currency Convertibility and the Fund: Review and Prognosis

By Vicente Galbis

April 1, 1996

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Vicente Galbis. Currency Convertibility and the Fund: Review and Prognosis, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1996) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

This paper reviews experience with currency convertibility on both the current and capital accounts, with particular attention to the Fund’s concepts and policy implications. After discussing the basic concepts of convertibility, the paper reviews the experience with convertibility in three groups of Fund members--industrial countries, developing countries, and transition countries. The paper also discusses some policy options designed to encourage acceptance of convertibility by Fund members that have not yet done so.

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital controls, Capital flows, Current account, Exchange restrictions, Foreign exchange, Multiple currency practices

Keywords: Article XIV, Baltics, Capital controls, Capital convertibility, Capital convertibility need, Capital flows, Capital restriction, Capital transaction, Central and Eastern Europe, Convertibility need, Current account, Current account restriction, Exchange restrictions, Multiple currency practices, Official rate, Parallel rate, Rate, Transition country, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    64

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1996/039

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0391996

  • ISBN:

    9781451845785

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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