Robert Triffin was a Belgian economist best known for his critique of the Bretton Woods system, later known as Triffin's dilemma. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1938 and taught there from 1939 until 1942. He held positions in the U.S. Federal Reserve System (1942-1946), the International Monetary Fund (1946-1948), and the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (1948-1951), now the OECD. In 1951 he became a professor of economics at Yale University.

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  • Robert Triffin was a Belgian economist best known for his critique of the Bretton Woods system, later known as Triffin's dilemma. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1938 and taught there from 1939 until 1942. He held positions in the U.S. Federal Reserve System (1942-1946), the International Monetary Fund (1946-1948), and the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (1948-1951), now the OECD. In 1951 he became a professor of economics at Yale University. In 1960 he went before the United States Congress warning of serious flaws in the Bretton Woods System. His theory was based on observing the dollar glut, or the accumulation of the United States dollar outside of the U.S. Under the Bretton Woods agreement the U.S. had pledged to convert dollars into gold, but by the early 1960s the glut had caused more dollars to be available outside the U.S. than gold was in its Treasury. As a result the U.S. had to run balance of payments deficits to supply the world with dollar reserves that kept liquidity for their increased wealth. However, running the balance of payments deficits in the long term would erode confidence in the dollar. As a result over the long term he predicted that the system could not maintain both liquidity and confidence, a theory later to be known as the Triffin dilemma. It was largely ignored until 1971, when what he had hypothesized came to be, forcing U.S. President Richard Nixon to halt convertibility of the United States dollar into gold. This shock led to the end of the Bretton Woods System. Although he became a U.S. citizen in 1942, 1977 saw Triffin reclaim his Belgian citizenship and return to Europe. There he was a staunch supporter of European integration and helped to develop the European Monetary System and supported the idea of a central bank which would later come in the form of the European Central Bank.
  • Robert Triffin war ein belgisch-US-amerikanischer Ökonom.
  • Robert Triffin, fou un economista belga (si bé passà bona part de la seva vida realitzant la seva activitat professional als Estats Units) reconegut fonamentalment per la seva tasca en diverses institucions internacionals en temes de política monetària. Participà també en la reforma monetaria en nombrosos països d'Amèrica llatina Entre les seves obres principals destaquen Competència monopolística i Teoria del Equilibri General, L'Or i la crisi del dòlar: el futur de la convertibilitat i Evolució del Sistema Monetari Internacional. En L'Or i la crisi del dòlar: el futur de la convertibilitat alertava del col·lapse del sistema monetari fixat a Bretton-Woods, cosa que succeí 10 anys més tard.
  • Robert Triffin (5 de octubre de 1911, Flobecq - 23 de febrero de 1993, Ostend, fue un economista belga, aunque pasó gran parte de su vida trabajando en Estados Unidos. Es reconocido fundamentalmente por su trabajo en diversas instituciones internacionales en temas de política monetaria. Participó también en la reforma monetaria de numerosos países de latinoamérica. Entre sus principales obras destacan "Competencia monopolística y teoría del equilibrio general", "El oro y la crisis del dólar: el futuro de la convertibilidad", donde alertó sobre el colapso del sistema monetario fijado en Bretton-Woods que sucedería 10 años después, y "Evolución del sistema monetario internacional" .
  • Robert Triffin Conseiller du président Kennedy, Robert Triffin obtient en 1929, à l’âge de 18 ans, son diplôme d’études moyennes du degré supérieur au Collège Notre-Dame de la Tombe de Kain avec 95 % des points, il reçoit d'ailleurs la médaille d’or du Gouvernement. Docteur en droit et licencié en sciences économiques de l’Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain), il est nommé assistant à l’université Harvard, aux États-Unis en 1938. Reconnu comme expert international, Robert Triffin influence la création des grandes institutions qui voient le jour au lendemain de la guerre. Dans son ouvrage Gold and the Dollar Crisis. The Future of Convertibility (1960), il se montre critique à l'égard des accords de Bretton Woods, met en évidence ce qui sera appelé le dilemme de Triffin et prône la réforme du Fonds monétaire international. À son retour aux États-Unis en 1951, il est désigné professeur à Yale où il devient d’ailleurs Maître du très prestigieux Berkeley College. Revenu en Belgique au début des années 1980, Robert Triffin décède en 1993.
  • Robert Triffin was een Belgisch-Amerikaans econoom die vooral bekend is omwille van het Triffin dilemma.
  • Роберт Триффин — американский экономист бельгийского происхождения. Преподавал в Йельском университете. Критик теории монополистической конкуренции Э. Чемберлина. Лауреат премии Фрэнка Сейдмана (1988).
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  • A fundamental reform of the international monetary system has long been overdue. Its necessity and urgency are further highlighted today by the imminent threat to the once mighty U.S. dollar.
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  • Robert Triffin was a Belgian economist best known for his critique of the Bretton Woods system, later known as Triffin's dilemma. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1938 and taught there from 1939 until 1942. He held positions in the U.S. Federal Reserve System (1942-1946), the International Monetary Fund (1946-1948), and the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (1948-1951), now the OECD. In 1951 he became a professor of economics at Yale University.
  • Robert Triffin war ein belgisch-US-amerikanischer Ökonom.
  • Robert Triffin, fou un economista belga (si bé passà bona part de la seva vida realitzant la seva activitat professional als Estats Units) reconegut fonamentalment per la seva tasca en diverses institucions internacionals en temes de política monetària.
  • Robert Triffin (5 de octubre de 1911, Flobecq - 23 de febrero de 1993, Ostend, fue un economista belga, aunque pasó gran parte de su vida trabajando en Estados Unidos. Es reconocido fundamentalmente por su trabajo en diversas instituciones internacionales en temas de política monetaria. Participó también en la reforma monetaria de numerosos países de latinoamérica.
  • Robert Triffin Conseiller du président Kennedy, Robert Triffin obtient en 1929, à l’âge de 18 ans, son diplôme d’études moyennes du degré supérieur au Collège Notre-Dame de la Tombe de Kain avec 95 % des points, il reçoit d'ailleurs la médaille d’or du Gouvernement. Docteur en droit et licencié en sciences économiques de l’Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain), il est nommé assistant à l’université Harvard, aux États-Unis en 1938.
  • Robert Triffin was een Belgisch-Amerikaans econoom die vooral bekend is omwille van het Triffin dilemma.
  • Роберт Триффин — американский экономист бельгийского происхождения. Преподавал в Йельском университете. Критик теории монополистической конкуренции Э. Чемберлина. Лауреат премии Фрэнка Сейдмана (1988).
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