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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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Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Mobility : How Much of the Swoboda Thesis Survives?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2008

Alexander Swoboda is one of the originators of the bipolar view that capital mobility creates pressure for countries to abandon intermediate exchange rate arrangements in favor of greater flexibility and harder pegs. This paper takes another look at the evidence for this hypothesis using two...

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Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

Eichengreen, Barry - 2004

interest. This image of the current system as Bretton Woods reborn also overlooks how the world has changed since the 1960s … resembling the Bretton Woods System, it is not long for this world …

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Crises Now and Then : What Lessons from the Last Era of Financial Globalization

Eichengreen, Barry - 2002

international monetary framework was responsible for the relatively short-lived and mild nature of pre-World War I financial crises …

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Was There Really an Earlier Period of International Financial Integration Comparable to Today?

Bordo, Michael D. - 1998

In this paper we reconsider the international market integration, starting at high levels in the late nineteenth century, collapsing between the wars, and recovering gradually after 1945 to reach levels comparable to pre-1914 in the 1990's. The empirical evidence we survey suggests that in some...

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