Significance of International Reserves in the Global Anti-Crisis Financing System

The article analyzes parameters characterizing anticrisis financing of the global financial safety net (GFSN) with an emphasis on international reserves. A new approach was used, in which the analysis was carried out through the prism of the global currency liquidity concept. The article shows the role of international currency reserves as a key element providing interconnection, on the one hand, of official and private components of global liquidity, and, on the other hand, of national and international currency systems. Facilitating the redistribution of global currency liquidity, reserves are at the same time free from the disadvantages inherent in other components of the global financial safety net.