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This paper studies the geography of wealth transfers during the 2008 global financial crisis. We construct valuation changes on bilateral external positions in equity, direct investment and portfolio debt at the height of the crisis to map who benefited and who lost on their external exposure....
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This paper assesses whether the international monetary system is already tri-polar and centred around the US dollar, the euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s" dominance hypothesis", i.e. whether the renminbi is already the dominant currency in Asia, exerting...
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and its possible ascension to reserve currency status. In an unstable and financially integrated world, governments …’ precautionary demand for reserve assets is likely to increase. But the world then risks a third crisis of the global reserve system …, another re-run of the Triffin paradox, with an ever-growing emerging-world insurance demand loaded onto a small group of ever …
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the presumption that the pound sterling continued to dominate the U.S. dollar in central bank reserves until after World …
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monetary policy in a world with a dollar standard, defined here as a environment in which all traded goods prices are set in US … particular, the US is essentially indifferent to exchange rate volatility in setting monetary policy, while the rest of the world … the US and the rest of the world, the preferences of the US dominate. That is, the equilibrium is identical to one where …
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system: international liquidity and exchange rate management. Despite radical changes since World War II in the market …
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This paper is an exploration of the theory of endogenous regime changes which takes as an illustration the making of the classical gold standard. The international gold-based fixed exchange rate regime that surfaced during the 1870s has traditionally been interpreted as resulting from a mix of...
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This paper provides a new methodology to map international monetary relations in the 19th century. We identify an index of international liquidity and, applying techniques borrowed from formal network analysis (in particular, blockmodelling) we produce a formal ranking of currencies according to...
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This paper reviews three problems of the world economy since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system; an unreliable … Dollar Problem', is deployed to examine this question. We consider a world of two regions -- 'Asia' and the 'North' -- in … not work very well in the present world". This fact is used to suggest an explanation of present instabilities in world …
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This paper examines some popular explanations for the smooth operation of the pre-1914 gold standard. We find that the rapid adjustment of economies to underlying disturbances played an important role in stabilizing output and employment under the gold standard system, but no evidence that this...
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