Front Matter

Contents

  • Effects of Central Bank Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market

    • HANS GENBERG

  • Incentives for International Currency Diversification by U. S. Financial Investors

    • GEORGE M. VON FURSTENBERG

  • Monetary Stabilization With and Without Government Credibility

    • JACQUES R. ARTUS

  • The Case For and Against “Disequilibrium” Money

    • WILLIAM H. WHITE

  • International Trade of Multinational Corporations and Its Responsiveness to Changes in Aggregate Demand and Relative Prices

    • DAVID J. GOLDSBROUGH

  • Import Discipline in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector

    • DEAN A. DeROSA and MORRIS GOLDSTEIN

  • Summaries

  • Résumés

  • Resúmenes

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STAFF PAPERS

Norman K. Humphreys, Editor

Jennie Lee Carter and Paul Gleason

Assistant Editors

Editorial Committee

Norman K. Humphreys, Chairman

Jacques R. Artus

Sterie T. Beza

Eduard H. Brau

Adalbert Knöbl

Anthony Lanyi

Ichiro Otani Salgado

Rose S. Porras

Alan A. Tait

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“Among the responsibilities of the International Monetary Fund, as set forth in the Articles of Agreement, is the obligation to ‘act as a center for the collection and exchange of information on monetary and financial problems,’ and thereby to facilitate ‘the preparation of studies designed to assist members in developing policies which further the purposes of the Fund.’ The publications of the Fund are one way in which this responsibility is discharged.

“Through the publication of Staff Papers, the Fund is making available some of the work of members of its staff. The Fund believes that these papers will be found helpful by government officials, by professional economists, and by others concerned with monetary and financial problems. Much of what is now presented is quite provisional. On some international monetary problems, final and definitive views are scarcely to be expected in the near future, and several alternative, or even conflicting, approaches may profitably be explored. The views presented in these papers are not, therefore, to be interpreted as necessarily indicating the position of the Executive Board or of the officials of the Fund.”

The authors of the papers in this issue have received considerable assistance from their colleagues on the staff of the Fund. This general statement of indebtedness may be accepted in place of a detailed list of acknowledgments.

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INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

STAFF PAPER

Vol. 28

No. 3

SEPTEMBER 1981