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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...

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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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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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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

Rodrik, Dani - 2002

world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of …

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Is Newer Better? Penn World Table Revisions and Their Impact on Growth Estimates

Johnson, Simon - 2009

This paper sheds light on two problems in the Penn World Table (PWT) GDP estimates. First, we show that these estimates …

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The Role of History in Bilateral Trade Flows

Eichengreen, Barry - 1996

This paper investigates the theory and evidence that history plays a role in shaping the direction of international trade. Because there are reasons to anticipate a positive correlation between the predominant direction of trade flows in the past and membership in preferential arrangements in...

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The Impact of China on the Exports of Other Asian Countries

Eichengreen, Barry - 2004

We analyze the impact of China's growth on the exports of other Asian countries. Our innovation is to distinguish the increase in China's demand for imports from its increased penetration of export markets. Using the gravity model, we disaggregate among commodity types and account for the...

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The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression : Who Succumbed and Why?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2009

The Great Depression was marked by a severe outbreak of protectionist trade policies. But contrary to the presumption that all countries scrambled to raise trade barriers, there was substantial cross-country variation in the movement to protectionism. Specifically, countries that remained on the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463508

Sterling's Past, Dollar's Future : Historical Perspectives on Reserve Currency Competition

Eichengreen, Barry - 2005

This paper provides an historical perspective on reserve currency competition and on the prospects of the dollar as an international currency. It questions the conventional wisdom that competition for reserve-currency status is a winner-take-all game, showing that several currencies have often...

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