Assignment I Exchange Rate Regimes: Historical Overview Prepared for: Mrs. Syeda Mahrufa Bashar‚ Assistant Professor Course Instructor: International Finance Course Code: F405 Prepared by: Tanvir Ahmed Khan Tanu (ZR-06) Rifat Tareq (ZR-20) Makshudul Alom Mokul Mondal (ZR-43) Hammad Bin Noor (ZR-49) Ishmam Rahman Abedin (ZR-53) Institute of Business Administration (IBA) University of Dhaka September 11‚ 2013 Table of Contents 1 Exchange Rate
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MOIZ KALABHAI STUDENT NUMBER-120491980 MBA CLASS 2013 ESSAY THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 1 CONTENTS I– Page INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………………….2 II – Brief History of Bretton Woods System……………………………………………………2 III – Formation of International Monetary Fund (IMF)…………………………………….3 IV – Role of IMF………………………………………………………………………………………………3 V – Post Period of 1972-81 (The Floating Exchange Rate Era)………………………….4 VI – Current Financial Crisis……………………………………………………………………………
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INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM & MULTULATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS Meaning International Monetary System refers to the system prevailing in world foreign exchange markets through which international trade & capital movements are financed & exchanges rates are determined. MNCs operate in a global market‚ buying/selling/producing in many different countries. For example‚ GM sells cars in 150 countries‚ produces cars in 50 countries‚ so it has to deal with hundreds of currencies. What are the
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restrictions that hindered trade. By the early 1960s‚ the U.S. dollar’s fixed value against gold‚ under the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates‚ was seen as overvalued. A sizable increase in domestic spending on President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs and a rise in military spending caused by the Vietnam War gradually worsened the overvaluation of the dollar. End of Bretton Woods system The system dissolved between 1968 and 1973. In August 1971‚ U.S. President Richard Nixon announced
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References: Aizenman‚ J. (2011). The Impossible Trinity – from the Policy Trilemma to the Policy Quadrilemma. The Impossible Trinity ‚ 1-5. Definition of Bretton Woods Agreement. (2000). Retrieved September 2012‚ from Investopedia: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/brettonwoodsagreement.asp#axzz26C6Q6HQJ Eichengreen‚ B Eitemn‚ D.‚ Stonehill‚ A.‚ & Michael‚ M. (2010). Multinational Business Finance. Pearson
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INTRODUCTION The exchange of goods and services can be dated back to the days of slavery when humans were traded in exchange for European fine arts. Subsequently the barter system was introduced at the national level in many countries. However‚ as the trade market increased internationally‚ there needed to be a common exchange system that would be accepted by all trading countries. Gold was the demand and as such many countries accepted it as a common medium of exchange. Despite it acceptance
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Assignment on History of Exchange Rate Prepared for Ms. Rafia Afrin Course Title: International Finance Course Code: F603 Prepared By H. M. Shahriar Hassan Roll: 05 MBA 45E Institute of Business Administration University of Dhaka March 19‚ 2013 History of Exchange Rate Exchange Rate: In finance‚ an exchange rate between two currencies is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another. It is also regarded as the value of one country’s currency in terms of another
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OUR HISTORY July 1944 (Bretton Woods‚ New Hampshire‚ USA) conceived at a UN conference. * 1944 – 71 Cooperation and Reconstruction * 1972 – 81 End of the Bretton Woods System * 1982 – 89 Debt and Painful Reforms * 1990 – 2004 Societal Change for Eastern Europe and Asian Upheaval * 2005 – Present Globalization and Crisis WHY WE WERE FORMED “To build a framework for economic cooperation that would avoid a repetition of the vicious circle of competitive devaluations that
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Russia‚ and 40 other countries met at Bretton Woods‚ a resort in New Hampshire‚ to lay the foundation for the post-war international financial order. Such a new system‚ they hoped‚ would prevent another worldwide economic cataclysm like the Great Depression that had destabilized Europe and the United States in the 1930s and had contributed to the rise of Fascism and the war. Therefore‚ the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference‚ as the Bretton Woods conference was officially called‚ created the
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