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Currency Crisis and Unemployment: Sterling in 1931
Eichengreen, Barry; Jeanne, Olivier - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
This paper studies the role of unemployment in sterling's interwar experience. According to most narrative accounts, the proximate cause of the 1931 sterling crisis was a high and rising unemployment rate that placed pressure on British governments to pursue reflationary policies. We present a...
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When Does Capital Account Liberalization Help More than It Hurts?
Arteta, Carlos O.; Eichengreen, Barry; Wyplosz, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
In this paper we reconsider the evidence on capital account liberalization and growth. While we find indications of a positive association, the effects vary with time, with how capital account liberalization is measured, and with how the relationship is estimated. The evidence that the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718384
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The IMF in a World of Private Capital Markets
Eichengreen, Barry; Kletzer, Kenneth; Mody, Ashoka - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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The Monetary Consequences of a Free Trade Area of the Americas
Eichengreen, Barry; Taylor, Alan M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
How will free trade affect monetary policy and exchange rate regime choices in the Americas? While the European Union illustrates how the creation of an integrated market in goods and services can enhance monetary cooperation and integration, it is not clear that Europe's experience translates...
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The External Sector, the State and Development in Eastern Europe
Eichengreen, Barry; Kohl, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have displayed widely disparate trade performance since the beginning of the transition. The Czech Republic and Hungary have had some success moving into the production and export of more technologically-sophisticated, higher value-added goods, while...
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The Real Exchange Rate and Export Growth : Are Services Different?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2013
This paper considers the determinants of exports of modern services and traditional services. It considers the growth of export volumes as well as export surges, that is, the periods of rapid sustained export growth. It asks whether the determinants of export growth rates and export surges...
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Cables, sharks and servers : technology and the geography of the foreign exchange market
Eichengreen, Barry; Lafarguette, Romain; Mehl, Arnaud - 2016
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The real exchange rate and export growth : are services different?
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204675
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Cables, sharks and servers : technology and the geography of the foreign exchange market
Eichengreen, Barry; Lafarguette, Romain; Mehl, Arnaud - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437472
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Regionalism versus Multilateral Trade Arrangements
Anderson, Kym (contributor); Bark, Taeho (contributor);  … - 1997
There is no doubt that the open multilateral trading system after World War II was a key ingredient in the rapid … economic development of the entire world. Especially in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, exports increased dramatically … emerge as significant factors affecting world trade. This volume contains thirteen papers that analyze the tensions between …
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