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The article discusses the abstracts of several papers on economics published in the November 1965 issue of the journal "International Monetary Fund Staff Papers." The first article of the journal is "International Liquidity and the Balance of Payments," by Oscar L. Altman. It opines that there are two major ways of creating international reserves of an unconditional character: serves of an unconditional character: through the mechanism of the gold exchange standard, using key currencies, principally dollars, through gold tranche positions in the International Monetary Fund. The second article is "Seasonality in World Financial and Trade Data," J.B. Gupta. The result of the article shows that, among the 13 series, Export have the highest seasonality; the seasonality of Imports, International Liquidity, Reserve Money, Foreign Assets, Claims on Government, and Money is also high. The third article of the journal is "Effects of Exchange-Rate Devaluations and Revaluations on Receipts from Tourism," by Andreas S. Gerakis, which argues that there are good a priori reasons for believing that shifts in relative prices could have powerful substitution effects on tourist receipts and that the latter could be price elastic.

Presents a series of abstracts on various topics of economics published in the March 1964 issue of the periodical 'International Monetary Fund,' vol. 11. Analysis of official intervention on the forward exchange market; Overview of economic program and financial policies in Belgium; Effects of income and price changes on the balance of payments of the U.S.; Appraisal of domestic policies and payment problems of Sudan.