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The International Monetary System and International Financial System as an Analogy to the Copernican Heliocentric system : A simple multi-layers network model with simultaneous reg...

Bordo, Michael D.; Bastidon, Cécile - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The evolution of the IMS and IFS in the past several hundred years can be viewed through the lens of the Copernican heliocentric system developed over 500 years ago. We trace out the evolution across regimes of the IMS and IFS in terms of network representations of the Copernican system. We...

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Are Financial Crises Becoming Increasingly More Contagious? What is the Historical Evidence on Contagion?

Bordo, Michael D. - 2000

We examine the evidence of contagion during the pre World War I era and the interwar and contrast our findings with the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470837

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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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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Real Versus Pseudo-International Systemic Risk : Some Lessons from History

Bordo, Michael D. - 1995

This paper considers the meaning of domestic and international systemic risk. It examines scenarios that have been adduced as creating systemic risk both within countries and among them. It distinguishes between the concepts of real and pseudo-systemic risk. We examine the history of episodes...

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Global Macro-Financial Cycles and Spillovers

Ha, Jongrim - 2020

We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...

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The Transformation and Performance of Emerging Market Economies Across the Great Divide of the Global Financial Crisis

Bordo, Michael D. - 2019

The process of central bank (CB) evolution by emerging market economies (EMEs), including central bank independence (CBI) and transparency (CBT), converged towards that of the advanced economies (AEs) before the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-2008. It was greatly aided by the adoption of...

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Global Financial Cycle and Liquidity Management

Jeanne, Olivier - 2020

We use a tractable model to show that emerging markets can protect themselves from the global financial cycle by expanding (rather than restricting) capital flows. This involves accumulating reserves when global liquidity is high to buy back domestic assets at a discount when global financial...

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A Tractable Model of Precautionary Reserves, Net Foreign Assets, or Sovereign Wealth Funds

Carroll, Christopher D. - 2009

existing specialized literature on the precautionary motive, deriving a convenient formula for the economy's target value of …

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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2009

, however, is that there seem to be certain "threshold" levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs …

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