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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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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

, with the spread of globalization, there is a new periphery, Asia, but the same old core, the United States, with the same … 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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The U.S. Current Account Deficit : Gradual Correction or Abrupt Adjustment?

Edwards, Sebastian - 2006

In this paper I use a large multi-country data set to analyze the determinants of abrupt and large "current account reversals." The results from a variance-component probit model indicate that the probability of experiencing a major current account reversal is positively affected by larger...

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Productivity Measurement and the Impact of Trade and Technology on Wages : Estimates for the U.S., 1972-1990

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997

We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and nonproduction workers. Trade is measured by the foreign outsourcing of intermediate inputs, while technical change is measured by the shift towards high-technology capital such...

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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2013

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...

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On Current Account Surpluses and the Correction of Global Imbalances

Edwards, Sebastian - 2007

realignment of world growth rates -- with Japan and Europe growing faster, and the U.S. growing more slowly -- is likely to solve … resolution of global imbalances. This means that, even if there is a realignment of global growth, the world is likely to need …

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Does the Current Account Matter?

Edwards, Sebastian - 2001

The purpose of this paper is to investigate in detail the behavior of the current account in emerging economies, and in particular its role if any in financial crises. Models of current account behavior are reviewed, and a dynamic model of current account sustainability is developed. The...

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Dollarization and Economic Performance : An Empirical Investigation

Edwards, Sebastian - 2001

In this paper I investigate the historical record of countries that have lived under a 'dollarized' monetary system. As it turns out, this is a very small group of counties, most of which have operated under very special circumstances, and for which there are very limited data. The results...

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The Rise and Fall of a Barbarous Relic : The Role of Gold in the International Monetary SYstem

Bordo, Michael D. - 1998

inelastically supplied precious metal and elastcially suppled foreign exchange to meet the the world economy's demand for reserves …

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