History of the IMF

Editors Yoshio Asai is a professor of economic history at Seijo University. He is the author of "Sengo Kaikaku to Minshushugi "(Post-war Economic Reforms and Democracy) (2001); and a co-author of "Showa Zaiseishi, 1952 73 "(History of Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Japan, 1952 73)," "Vol.11 (1999), Vol.12 (1992")"; and" Kinyu Kiki to Kakushin "(Financial Crises and Innovations)(2000). Masanao Itoh is professor at Otsuma Women s University and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. His main writings are "Japanese Overseas Finance and Financial Policy 1914 1936 ( "Nagoya University Press, 1989, in Japanese), which was awarded the 31st Japan Economist Prize in 1990; "History of Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Japan 1974 1989, " Vol. 7, 11: International Finance and External Economic Affairs (Ministry of Finance, Toyo Keizai Inc., editor, 2003, 2004, in Japanese); "Japanese Overseas Finance and Financial Policy 1945 1974 "and" The Formation and the End of the 360 Yen Dollar Rate "(Nagoya University Press, 2009, in Japanese); and "Why Have the Financial Crises Been Repeated?" Junpo-sha, 2010, in Japanese). Kazuhiko Yago, born in 1962, professor at Waseda University, Faculty of Commerce, defended his doctoral dissertation L epargne populaire comme fonds de placement public: Caisse des Depots et Consignations at Universite Paris X in 1996. Publications include: "Asian Imperial Banking History "(with Hubert Bonin and Nuno Valerio), (Pickering and Chatto, 2014); "The Financial History of the Bank for International Settlements" (Routledge, 2012); La Banque du Japon dans le systeme monetaire international,1945 1985, in Olivier Feiertag et Michel Margairaz, dirs., "Les banques centrales a l'echelle du monde" (Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 2012). "

I. Foundation and Development of the IMF.- Ch1 Prehistory of the IMF: Debates in the UK and Anglo-American Negotiation (M.Itoh).- Ch2 Early Policy Formation of the IMF: in relation to the NAC (I.Suto).- Ch3 Struggle of the IMF, 1944-61: Toward the creation of the Postwar Monetary System (T.Nishikawa).- Ch4 “Maybe the Fund needs something else” Per Jacobsson, from the Bank for International Settlements to the International Monetary Fund, 1931–1963 (P.Clement).- Ch5 International Liquidity Problem in the 1960s: IMF Board Discussions (Y.Noshita).- Ch6 Return to Convertibility of the West European Currencies and the BA Market: IMF and FRB (M.Tsurumi).- II. IMF in relation to National Economies and International Organizations.- Ch7 IMF and France before 1971: Bretton Woods as a Multilateral Order (K.Yago).- Ch8 IMF and Germany: Monetary Crisis and Exchange Rate Policy (A.Ishizaka).- Ch9 IMF and Italy: Trade Liberalization and Return to Convertibility (K.Itoh).- Ch10 IMF and Canada: From Floating to Fixed Exchange Rate System (A.Sugawara).- Ch11 Japanese Participation to the Bretton Woods System (M.Kishida).- Ch12 IMF and Japan: Liberalization and Pursuit of Rapid Growth (Y.Asai).- Ch13 China and the International Monetary Fund 1945-1985 (C.Schenk).