International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity: Guidelines for a Data Template

October 23, 2001

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Anne Y. Kester International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity: Guidelines for a Data Template, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2001) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

International financial crises in the late 1990s revealed that deficiencies in countries’ international reserves and related information made it difficult to anticipate and respond to crises by obscuring financial weaknesses and imbalances. This volume sets forth an innovative framework to assess countries’ international reserves and foreign currency liquidity. The framework takes account of official balance sheet and off-balance-sheet financial activities, future and potential demand for foreign exchange to meet official obligations, the availability of official foreign currency assets to meet such demand, and official risk exposure to exchange rate fluctuations. This work clarifies what international reserves are, and how international reserves and related information should be strengthened to promote informed decision making in the public and private sectors, thereby helping improve the functioning of global financial markets.

Subject: Central banks, Currencies, Financial institutions, International reserves, Money, Options, Reserve assets, Securities

Keywords: Aggregate short position, Currencies, Foreign currencies vis-à-vis, Foreign currency flow, Foreign currency securities, Global, International reserves, Long position, M&G, Market value, Option contract, Options, Put, Reserve assets, Securities, Securities collateral

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77
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Manuals & Guides
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IRFCEA
ISBN:

9781589060586
ISSN:

2663-3744

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