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Do global current account imbalances still matter in a world of deep international financial markets where gross two …" view of the world, large current account imbalances, while very possibly warranted by fundamentals and welcome, can also …
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This paper discusses the profound difficulties of maintaining fixed exchange rates in a world of expanding global …
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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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The ebb and flow of international capital since the nineteenth century illustrates recurring difficulties, as well as the alternative perspectives from which policymakers have tried to confront them. This paper is devoted to documenting these vicissitudes quantitatively and explaining them....
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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 …
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inescapable in the real world of asymmetric information and imperfect contract enforcement. I argue, however, that in confronting …
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The rapid growth of international reserves---a development concentrated in the emerging markets---remains a puzzle. In this paper we suggest that a model based on financial stability and financial openness goes far toward explaining reserve holdings in the modern era of globalized capital...
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time, the definition of external balance has evolved in response to changes in the world economy's structure. The foreign …
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For several decades until the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Covered Interest Parity (CIP) appeared to hold quite closely--even as a broad macroeconomic relationship applying to daily or weekly data. Not only have CIP deviations significantly increased since the GFC, but potential macrofinancial...
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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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