An international monetary system is a set of internationally agreed rules, conventions and supporting institutions that facilitate international trade...

A monetary system is a system by which a government provides money in a country's economy. Modern monetary systems usually consist of the national treasury...

The European Monetary System (EMS) was a multilateral adjustable exchange rate agreement in which most of the nations of the European Economic Community...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member...

The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial relations among the United States, Canada, Western European countries...

exchange rate system by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1978 that gave a smaller role to gold in the international monetary system, this fixed...

agreements slowly reduced tariffs worldwide. Efforts to revamp the international monetary system after World War II improved exchange rate stability, fostering...

the functions of the international monetary system. A monetary hegemon would need: accessibility to international credits, foreign exchange markets the...

fixed quantity of gold. The gold standard was the basis for the international monetary system from the 1870s to the early 1920s, and from the late 1920s to...

new international monetary system that came to be known as the Bretton Woods system. Conference attendees had hoped that this new system would "ensure exchange...