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In this Paper we focus on the different historical regime experiences of the core and the periphery. Using conventional … develop this intuition by showing that before 1914, advanced countries adhered to gold while periphery countries either … resort to capital controls. Thus the key distinction between the exchange rate regime of core and periphery countries both …
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Most countries in the periphery specialized in the export of just a handful of primary products for most of their … change. Additionally, both effects were asymmetric between Core and Periphery, findings that speak directly to the terms of …
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We use hedonic prices and purchase quantities to consider what can be learned about household willingness to pay for baskets of organic products and how this varies across households. We use rich scanner data on food purchases by a large number of households to compute household specific lower...
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This paper discusses the existence of 'home' biases in the 19th century global capital market, whereby colonies appear to have received a 'disproportionate' amount of capital from their metropolis. Starting from a discussion of the Bulow Rogoff (1989) problem, we argue that imperial links...
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What determines the sustainability of sovereign debt? In this paper, we develop a model where myopic governments seek electoral popularity but can nevertheless commit credibly to service external debt. They do not default when they are poor because they would lose access to debt markets and be...
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