A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System

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Preface, Michael D. Bordo and Barry Eichengreen

I. Overviews and Origins
1 The Bretton Woods International Monetary System: An Historical Overview, Michael D. Bordo
Comments: Rudiger Dornbusch and Richard N. Cooper
2 Bretton Woods and Its Precursors: Rules Versus Discretion in the History of International Monetary Systems, Alberto Giovanni
Comments: Anna J. Schwartz and Charles Wyplosz
3 The Political Origins of Bretton Woods, G. John Ikenberry
Comments: John S. Odell and L. S. Pressnell
II. Bretton Woods in Operation
4 The Adjustment Mechanism, Maurice Obstfeld
Comments: Robert Z. Aliber and Vittorio U. Grilli
5 The Provision of Liquidity in the Bretton Woods System, Hans Genberg and Alexander K. Swoboda
Comments: Stanley W. Black and John Williamson
6 International Transmission under Bretton Woods, Alan C. Stockman
Comments: Toru Iwami and Bennett T. McCallum
7 The Role of International Organizations in the Bretton Woods System, Kathryn M. Dominguez
Comments: Alberto Alesina and William H. Branson
8 Devaluation Controversies in the Developing Countries: Lessons from the Bretton Woods Era, Sebastian Edwards (Jointly with) Julie A. Santaella
Comments: Stanley Fischer and Albert Fishlow
9 The Collapse of the Bretton Woods Fixed Exchange Rate System, Peter M. Garber
Comment: Willem H. Buiter
10 Panel Session I: Retrospectives, Michael Mussa, Chair; Edward M. Bernstein, W. Max Corden, and Robert Solomon
III. The Legacy of Bretton Woods
11 Interest Differentials under Bretton Woods and the Post-Bretton Woods Float: The Effects of Capital Controls and Exchange Risk, Richard C. Marston
Comments: Paul Krugman and Allan H. Meltzer
12 Attitudes towards Inflation and the Viability of Fixed Exchange Rates: Evidence from the EMS, Susan M. Collins and Francesco Giavazzi
Comments: Michele Fratianni and Niels Thygesen
13 Panel Session II: Implications for International Monetary Reform, Barry Eichengreen, Chair; C. Fren Bergsten, Stanley Fischer, Ronald I. McKinnon, Robert Mundell, and Martin S. Feldstein
IV. Conclusion
14 Epilogue: Three Perspectives on the Bretton Woods System, Barry Eichengreen