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Does Expansionary Monetary Policy Cause Asset Price Booms; Some Historical and Empirical Evidence

Bordo, Michael D. - 2013

In this paper we investigate the relationship between loose monetary policy, low inflation, and easy bank credit with asset price booms. Using a panel of up to 18 OECD countries from 1920 to 2011 we estimate the impact that loose monetary policy, low inflation, and bank credit has on house,...

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What Explains House Price Booms? : History and Empirical Evidence

Bordo, Michael D. - 2013

In this paper we investigate the relationship between loose monetary policy, low inflation, and easy bank credit with house price booms. Using a panel of 11 OECD countries from 1920 to 2011 we estimate a panel VAR in order to identify shocks that can be interpreted as loose monetary policy...

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Risk Sharing through Capital Gains

Balli, Faruk - 2011

We estimate channels of international risk sharing between European Monetary Union (EMU), European Union, and other OECD countries 1992-2007. We focus on risk sharing through savings, factor income flows, and capital gains. Risk sharing through factor income and capital gains was close to zero...

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A retrospective on the classical gold standard, 1821 - 1931

Bordo, Michael D. (ed.); Schwartz, Anna Jacobson (contributor) - 1984

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Measuring Real Economic Effects of Bailouts : Historical Perspectives on How Countries in Financial Distress Have Fared With and Without Bailouts

Bordo, Michael D. - 2000

In this paper we first trace the changing nature of banking, currency and debt crises from the last century to the present. Each type of crisis has transmogrified in the presence of official intervention and the creation of a safety net. A similar pattern is observed for international rescue...

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The Future of EMU : What Does the History of Monetary Unions Tell Us?

Bordo, Michael D. - 1999

The creation of EMU and the ECB has triggered a discussion of the future of EMU. Independent observers have pointed to a number of shortcomings or hazard areas' in the construction of EMU, such as the absence of a central lender of last resort function for EMU, the lack of a central authority...

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Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hunderd Years Ago?

Bordo, Michael D. - 1999

for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …

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Fiscal Policy in the Age of COVID : Does it ‘Get in all of the Cracks?'

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the effects of fiscal policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at the firm, sector, country and global level. First, we estimate the impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on small and medium sized enterprise (SME) business failures. We combine firm-level financial data from 50...

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"Unusual, Unstable, Complicated, Unreliable and Temporary" Reinterpreting the Ebb and Flow of Globalization

Bordo, Michael D.; Schenk, Catherine R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

organize: World War I, Bretton Woods, 1970s Great Inflation and Managed Floating. Each turning point was characterized by …

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The Global Velocity Curve 1952-1982

Bordo, Michael D. - 1986

cross country comparison in the post World War II period of 84 countries arrayed from very low to very high per capita …

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