Bìznes Inform (Apr 2018)
The Problems of Formation of the NBU Gold and Foreign Currency Reserves
Abstract
The article is aimed at studying tendencies and identifying features of Ukraine’s gold and foreign currency reserves, together with improving the theoretical and applied bases of their formation in the conditions of economic crisis. The theoretical and methodical issues of the process of formation of the NBU gold and foreign currency reserves are analyzed. The determined factors of influence on the structure of the gold and foreign currency reserves are classified into general and specific. The main tendencies in the dynamics of volumes of the NBU gold and foreign currency reserves, their composition, and currency structure in the period of 2013–2018 are considered. The probability of replenishment of reserves at the expense of various sources of their formation is substantiated. It has been suggested to increase the reserves not at the expense of own and borrowed sources of formation, but due to an efficient management of them, stipulating the necessity of determination of an optimum volume of the gold and foreign currency reserves fund of Ukraine.
