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Eichengreen, Barry - 2010

We describe in this essay why the gold standard and the euro are extreme forms of fixed exchange rates, and how these …

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The IMF in a World of Private Capital Markets

Eichengreen, Barry - 2005

The IMF attempts to stabilize private capital flows to emerging markets by providing public monitoring and emergency finance. In analyzing its role we contrast cases where banks and bondholders do the lending. Banks have a natural advantage in monitoring and creditor coordination, while bonds...

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What Explains Changing Spreads on Emerging-Market Debt : Fundamentals or Market Sentiment?

Eichengreen, Barry - 1998

In this paper we analyze data on nearly 1,000 developing-country bonds issued in the years 1991-96 the recent episode of heavy reliance on bonded debt. We analyze both the issue decision of debtors and the pricing decision of investors, minimizing selectivity bias by treating the two issues...

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Currency Mismatches, Debt Intolerance and Original Sin : Why They Are Not the Same and Why it Matters

Eichengreen, Barry - 2003

Recent years have seen the development of a large literature on balance sheet factors in emerging-market financial crises. In this paper we discuss three concepts widely used in this literature. Two of them original sin' and debt intolerance' seek to explain the same phenomenon, namely, the...

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Imported or Home Grown? The 1992-3 EMS Crisis

Eichengreen, Barry; Naef, Alain - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using newly assembled data on foreign exchange market intervention, we construct a daily index of exchange market pressure during the 1992-3 crisis in the European Monetary System, allowing us to pinpoint when and where the crisis was most severe. Our analysis focuses on a neglected factor in...

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The Breakup of the Euro Area

Eichengreen, Barry - 2007

The possibility that the euro area might break up was being raised even before the single currency existed. These … scenarios were then lent new life five or six years on, when appreciation of the euro and problems of slow growth in various … unlikely, I argue here, that one or more members of the euro area will leave in the next ten years; total disintegration of the …

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Staying Afloat When the Wind Shifts : External Factors and Emerging-Market Banking Crises

Eichengreen, Barry - 1998

We analyze banking crises using a panel of macroeconomic and financial data for more than one hundred developing countries from 1975 through 1992. We find that banking crises in emerging markets are strongly associated with adverse external conditions. In particular Northern interest rates are...

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Growth Slowdowns Redux : New Evidence on the Middle-Income Trap

Eichengreen, Barry - 2013

We analyze the incidence and correlates of growth slowdowns in fast-growing middle-income countries, extending the analysis of an earlier paper (Eichengreen, Park and Shin 2012). We continue to find dispersion in the per capita income at which slowdowns occur. But in contrast to our earlier...

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Would Collective Action Clauses Raise Borrowing Costs?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2000

We examine the implications for borrowing costs of including collective-action clauses in loan contracts. For a sample of some 2,000 international bonds, we compare the spreads on bonds subject to UK governing law, which typically include collective-action clauses, with spreads on bonds subject...

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Can a Rapidly-Growing Export-Oriented Economy Smoothly Exit an Exchange Rate Peg? Lessons for China from Japan's High-Growth Era

Eichengreen, Barry - 2005

For China this suggests starting with a modest band widening and a limited increase in flexibility, and not with a large step revaluation which could have a sharp negative impact on investment and growth. Our results thus provide support for the kind of measures taken at the end of July

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