TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bordo,Michael D.
AU  - James,Harold
TI  - Reserves and Baskets
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 17492
PY  - 2011
Y2  - October 2011
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17492
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17492.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Michael D. Bordo
Department of Economics
Rutgers University
New Jersey Hall
75 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 732/822-7152
Fax: 732/932-7416
E-Mail: bordo@econ.rutgers.edu

Harold James
History Department and Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton NJ 08544
E-Mail: hjames@princeton.edu
AB  - We discuss three well known plans that were offered in the twentieth century to provide an artificial replacement for gold and key currencies as international reserves: Keynes’ Bancor, the SDR and the Ecu( predecessor to the euro).The latter two of these reserve substitutes were institutionalized but neither replaced the dollar as the principal medium of international reserve.
ER  -