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In the last decade serious crises have affected financial markets. Some proposals to avoid international financial crises have been made, but more useful could be measures to strengthen the functioning of the present international monetary system. Another way could be a much greater involvement of the private sector. The misalignment among leading currencies of the world can be a source of crisis difficult to solve. The creation of the European Central Bank (ECB) and of the euro leaves unresolved the serious problem of how a European Monetary Union member will respond to an asymmetric shock.
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Salvatore, D. (2000). The Present International Monetary System: Problems, Complications, and Reforms. In: Savona, P. (eds) The New Architecture of the International Monetary System. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6766-7_8
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