Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 5 von 5, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (School of Economics and Management), language: English, abstract: The Bretton Woods institutions International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) = World Bank are based on a hierarchical level of cooperating national states. The function of the International Monetary Fund is to be a reserve bank of industry states, as well as being a controlling body which is supervising the account of payments and the accounts of debits. The duties of World Bank have been defined to coordinate and resolve development and reconstruction aid. (Tetzlaff, S. 47).It was a long way before the Bretton Woods institutions began their work concrete in 1947. From 1942 until the conference in 1944 in Bretton Woods were discussed proposals by different states. Many oft that proposals was presented by the United States and by Great Britain. Some of the fundamental aspects in the discussion presented by the national states were to build up a strong world economic, to influence the capital movement, to provent currency manipulation but also to maintain the national currency and economic policy.Contents: Economic situation until the foundation of Bretton Woods in 1944, Bretton Woods Theoretic idea, The End of the Bretton Woods System, The Bretton Woods II System in Asia, Euro or Dollar?, Conclusion