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Globalization in historical perspective
Bordo, Michael D. (ed.); Taylor, Alan M. (contributor);  … - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480751
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471593
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Crises Now and Then : What Lessons from the Last Era of Financial Globalization
Eichengreen, Barry - 2002
We consider the operation of international capital markets in two periods of globalization, before 1914 and after 1971 … international monetary framework was responsible for the relatively short-lived and mild nature of pre-World War I financial crises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469999
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The Rise of Middle Kingdoms : Emerging Economies in Global Trade
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2012
In this paper, I examine changes in international trade associated with the integration of low- and middle-income countries into the global economy. Led by China and India, the share of developing economies in global exports more than doubled between 1994 and 2008. One feature of new trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460698
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International Policy Coordination : The Long View
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460992
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372472
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472076
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473496
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464545