The International Monetary System Reform: Refusal to Use the Dollar and Fair Exchange Rate

The purpose of the study is to develop recommendations aimed at eliminating shortcomings of the modern international monetary system. The author suggests a draft of its reform. The draft provides, firstly, an objective reflection of the economic state of the issuing state in compliance with the exchange rate of the national currency and, secondly, allows eliminating disproportionate use of the US dollar in international trade. When developing the draft of the reform, the author proceeded from the assumption that the reform of the international monetary system based on consensus is impossible: «beneficiaries of the modern monetary order» will actively defend their national interests to the detriment of the interests of the majority of members of the international community. Under the current conditions, the only way to transform the international monetary system is to take unilateral actions of individual States. At the same time, the «engine of the reform» should include the commercial benefit of private participants of foreign economic activity: it is unrealistic to adjust the international monetary system by establishing new rules that do not ensure additional (at least minimal) profit for international trade agents. Based on these prerequisites, the author formulates a model of unilateral modernization of the settlement system and the system of customs and tariff regulation when importing goods that can be applied by an individual state. Implementation of this model should generate demand on the domestic foreign exchange market for the national currency of the importing state proportional to its share in international trade. A consistent increase in the number of states using this model will allow, based on market principles, creating a new international monetary system, eliminating its main drawbacks, including reducing the role of the US dollar in international trade to an adequate value reflecting the current state of the American economy. The author relied in the study on analytical and statistical methods, the method of economic and legal modeling.

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