The papers collected in this volume are those presented at the fourteenth Colloquium arranged by the Societe Universitaire Europeenne de Recher­ ches Financieres (SUERF), which took place in Helsinki in May 1988. The Society is supported by a large number of central banks and commercial banks, by other financial and business institutions and by personal subscriptions from academics and others interested in monetary and financial problems. Since its establishment in 1963 it has developed as a forum for the exchange of information, research results and ideas among academics and practitioners in these fields, including central bank officials and civil servants responsible for formulating and applying monetary and financial policies, national and international. A major activity of SUERF is to organise and conduct Colloquia on subjects of topical interest to its members. The titles, places and dates of previous Colloquia for which volumes of the collected papers were published are noted, on the last page of this volume. Volumes were not produced for Colloquia held at Tarragona, Spain in October 1970 under the title "Monetary Policy and New Developments in Banking" and at Strasbourg, France in January 1972 under the title "Aspects of European Monetary Union".

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A Opening Addresses.- I Introduction.- II The Role of Financial Markets in the Adjustment Process: the Finnish Experience.- III The International Adjustment Process.- IV Problems of Adjustment in Developing Countries.- B Current and Potential Balance of Payments Adjustment Problems.- V External Adjustment in Small Open Economies - Some Recent Experience.- VI Balance of Payments Adjustment Processes in Japan.- VII US External Adjustment in Response to the Lower Dollar: the J-Curve.- VIII Balance of Payments Adjustment Problems - the Case of West Germany.- C The Modus Operandi of The Process of Adjustment.- IX Current and Prospective Balance of Payments Problems.- X Policy Design in the Face of a Terms of Trade Shock.- XI Financial Interdependence and External Adjustment: Some Problems Posed by US Federal Government Indebtedness.- XII Mode Opératoire D'ajustement et Marchés Spéculatifs - Premiers Enseignements de la Crise Financière Récente.- D Adjustment Policies.- XIII Exchange Rate Target Zones, the Louvre Accord and Policy Coordination.- XIV Reflections on World Economic Imbalances.- XV The International Economic Adjustment Mechanisms and the Coordination of Economic Policies.- XVI Recent Experience of International Monetary Policy Cooperation.- XVII The International Monetary System: Recent Developments and Key Issues.- E Special Problems of Adjustment in Developing Countries.- XVIII Special Problems of Adjustment in Developing Countries.- XIX Private Capital Flows and Developing Country Adjustment: Some Lessons of the Debt Crisis.- XX The Exchange Rate in the Adjustment Process of Less Developed Countries - a Multifarious Role.- XXI Foreign Lending Revisited 1880-1980.- F Concluding Address.- XXII Issues in International Economic Management.