RESFS Franco Spinelli Files

103588

1982-1983

series

textual records

0.5 linear feet of textual records

Flexible exchange rates, Monetary unions

Series is open according to the Policy on Access to the Fund's Archives. Files will be screened by reference staff for any time restrictions.

Series consists of files created by Franco Spinelli while he was an economist in the Financial Studies Division in the Research Department from 1982-1984. Files contain draft and final copies as well as background material for papers that Spinelli prepared while at the IMF. The key topics of the papers are: world money demand; international monetary cooperation; and optimum currency areas or monetary integration/independence and exchange rate flexibility/volatility with special reference to the work of Ronald McKinnon of Stanford University’s Department of Economics. The series is arranged in original order.