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• The World Economic and Financial Crisis: Next Steps for G-20 Cooperation

  Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  Financial turmoil may well continue, which is why government cooperation at the April 2nd G-20 meeting in London is badly needed to mitigate the effects of the crisis and to avoid beggar-thy-neighbor policies. Ralph Bryant argues that a collective bargain among all nations is required to support near-term actions and to reform the institutions for the longer run, and identifies specific short-term commitments.

• International Cooperation for Prudential Oversight of Finance: Which Institutions? Which Countries?

  Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  World leaders are gathering this weekend at the G-20 summit in Washington to discuss the global economic and financial crisis. In the first of his two pieces, Ralph Bryant lays out general principles for international cooperation in the supervision and regulation of financial activity. In the second piece, he identifies difficult challenges confronting the participating countries and the international institutions—such as the IMF, the Bank for International Settlements and the Financial Stability Forum—that will be the locus of cooperative efforts.

• Prudential Oversight of Finance: First Principles for International Cooperation

  Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  World leaders gathered at the G-20 summit in Washington to discuss the global economic and financial crisis. In the first of his two pieces, Ralph Bryant lays out general principles for international cooperation in the supervision and regulation of financial activity. In the second piece, he identifies difficult challenges confronting the participating countries and the international institutions—such as the IMF, the Bank for International Settlements and the Financial Stability Forum—that will be the locus of cooperative efforts.

• Overhauling the Global Financial System

  Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:04:14 GMT

  President Bush will meet with a host of G20 international leaders in mid-November to work on overhauling global financial systems. The hope is to establish international protocols to prevent a repeat of the current global economic crisis. Senior Fellow Ralph Bryant says the summit is a good idea but is not hopeful that it will yield any immediate results.

• International Cooperation for the Financial Crisis

  Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Ralph Bryant discusses the possibility of the U.S. financial crisis spreading to the international exchange rate markets, and proposes specific actions for central banks to take, including ongoing and enhanced cooperation on a global scale, coordinated monetary policy action and improvement of standards.

• Experts Critique Proposal for IMF Quota Reform

  Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  
  IMF governance reform is critical to adequately represent the rapidly growing emerging market economies and protect lower-income developing countries. Brookings experts raise concern over the Fund’s reform proposals and suggest ways to strengthen the legitimacy of the international financial institution.

• Reform of IMF Quota Shares and Voting Shares: A Missed Opportunity

  Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In a new paper, Ralph Bryant examines the recently approved recommended set of reforms for IMF quotas and voting shares and discusses key governance issues.

• Reform of Quota and Voting Shares in the International Monetary Fund: "Nothing" Is Temporarily Preferable to an Inadequate "Something"

  Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  Ralph C. Bryant summarizes an approach for periodic reviews of IMF quotas and voting shares, emphasizing the issues at stake in the design of a rebalancing formula, and assesses the status of the international negotiations as of the beginning of 2008.

• World Bank Leadership: What Next?

  Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Ralph C. Bryant (04/27/07)

• Key Features for Governance Reform of the IMF

  Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Presentation by Ralph C. Bryant (03/27/07)

• Top Ten Global Economic Challenges: An Assessment of Global Risks and Priorities

  Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Top Ten Global Economic Challenges Report by Global Economy and Development (February 2007)

• Asymmetric Demographic Transitions and North-South Capital Flows

  Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Ralph C. Bryant (5/24/06)

• Crisis Management for the World Financial System : Pragmatic Choices for International Financial Governance III

  Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  As the world financial system becomes increasingly integrated, crises originating in one nation are more and more likely to spill across national borders and cause more generalized financial disruption.

• Prudential Oversight & Standards for the World Financial System : Pragmatic Choices for International Financial Governance II

  Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  This essay provides more technical background, reviews the progress so far made, and discusses unresolved issues about cooperative governance for prudential financial oversight and the institutions that must carry out that governance.

• Crisis Prevention and Prosperity Management for the World Economy : Pragmatic Choices for International Financial Governance I

  Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Turbulent Waters: Cross-Border Finance and International Governance advocates faster progress in reforming the international financial system. This essay gives detailed analysis supporting these conclusions and provides more technical discussi

• Fertility Declines and Youth Dependency: Implications for the Global Economy

  Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  A working paper by Ralph C. Bryant, Hamid Faruqee, Delia Velculescu, and Elif Arbatli (2/09/2003)

• Demographic Pressures on Public Pension Systems and Government Budgets in Open Economies

  Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Ralph C. Bryant (September 2004)

• Cross-Border Macroeconomic Implications of Demographic Change

  Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Ralph C. Bryant (September 2004)

• Fertility Declines and Youth Dependency: Implications for the Global Economy

  Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Ralph C. Bryant, Hamid Faruqee, Delia Velculescu, and Elif Arbatli (August 2004)

• Demographic Pressures on Public Pension Systems and Government Budgets

  Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Ralph C. Bryant (August 2004)

• The Impact of Aging on Financial Markets and the Economy: A Survey

  Thu, 01 Jul 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Barry P. Bosworth, Ralph C. Bryant, and Gary Burtless (July 2004)

• IMF Leadership: What the United States Should Do

  Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Ralph C. Bryant and Marc de Fleurieu (4/01/04)

• Turbulent Waters : Cross-Border Finance and International Governance

  Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Today's world is organized politically into nation states with sovereign national governments. But as Ralph C. Bryant explains, the world's economic structure is outgrowing its political structure. This book's ambitious goal is no less than to outlin

• Incorporating Demographic Change in Multi-Country Macroeconomic Models: Some Preliminary Results

  Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Ralph C. Bryant and Warwick J. McKibbin (4/09/2003)

• Population Aging and Public Pension Systems: A First Look at the Cross-Border and Global Effects

  Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Ralph C. Bryant

• Cross-Border Financial Interdependence: Helpful and Hazardous

  Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Review article by Ralph C. Bryant (Fall 2001)

• Standards and Prudential Oversight for an Integrating World Financial System

  Mon, 01 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  Papers by Scholars in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution

• Economic Policy When the Short-Term Nominal Interest Rate is Stuck at the Lower Bound of Zero

  Mon, 01 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  Discussion Papers in International Economics No. 151

• Reforming the International Financial Architecture

  Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  Discussion Papers in International Economics No. 146

• Issues in Modeling the Global Dimensions of Demographic Change

  Tue, 01 Dec 1998 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Discussion Papers in International Economics

• Alternative Rules for Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy in New Zealand: A Preliminary Assessment of Stabilization Properties

  Mon, 01 Jul 1996 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Discussion Papers in International Economics

• Intertemporal Fiscal Policy in Macroeconomic Models: Introduction and Major Alternatives

  Sat, 01 Jun 1996 00:00:00 GMT

  Intertemporal Fiscal Policy in Macroeconomic Models: Introduction and Major Alternatives

• Central Bank Independence, Fiscal Responsibility, and the Goals of Macroeconomic Policy: An American Perspective on the New Zealand Experience

  Sat, 01 Jun 1996 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Discussion Papers in International Economics

• Alternative Specifications of Intertemporal Fiscal Policy in a Small Theoretical Model

  Sat, 01 Jun 1996 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Discussion Papers in International Economics

• International Coordination of National Stabilization Policies

  Mon, 02 Oct 1995 00:00:00 GMT

  
  This book analyzes the arguments for and against national governments coordinating their macroeconomic stabilization policies and offers recommendations for facilitating enhanced intergovernmental cooperation in the future.

• The Exchange Risk Premium, Uncovered Interest Parity, and the Treatment of Exchange Rates in Multicountry Macroeconomic Models

  Wed, 01 Mar 1995 00:00:00 GMT

  Discussion paper #111 by Ralph C. Bryant, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, the Brookings Institution

• Evaluating Policy Regimes : New Research in Empirical Macroeconomics

  Mon, 23 Aug 1993 00:00:00 GMT

  
  This volume brings together individuals and groups doing pioneer research on macroeconomic interaction, it explores what approach to monetary policy would lead to superior performance by individual national economies and the world economy as a whole.

• Macroeconomic Policies in an Interdependent World

  Wed, 27 Sep 1989 00:00:00 GMT

  
  The papers in this volume cover a range of issues concerned with macroeconomic interdependence and policymaking.

• Controlling Money : The Federal Reserve and Its Critics

  Fri, 01 Apr 1983 00:00:00 GMT

  
  This book analyzes three common sources on confusion about Federal Reserve policy: an inadequate comprehension of the differences among alternative operating procedures available to the Federal Reserve and the consequences of choosing one set of proc

• Controlling Money : The Federal Reserve and Its Critics

  Fri, 01 Apr 1983 00:00:00 GMT

  
  This book analyzes three common sources on confusion about Federal Reserve policy: an inadequate comprehension of the differences among alternative operating procedures available to the Federal Reserve and the consequences of choosing one set of proc