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organize: World War I, Bretton Woods, 1970s Great Inflation and Managed Floating. Each turning point was characterized by …
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the rest of the world rather than focusing on issues with U.S. monetary and fiscal policies. In addition, at the urging of …
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The relatively infrequent nature of major credit distress events makes an historical approach particularly useful. Using a combination of historical narrative and econometric techniques, we identify major periods of credit distress from 1875 to 2007, examine the extent to which credit distress...
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What does the historical record tell us about how to conduct monetary policy in a deflationary environment? We present a broad cross-country historical study of deflation over the past two centuries in order to shed light on current policy challenges. We first review the theoretical literature...
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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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"For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very … restrictiveness indexes. It then exploits a global agricultural distortions database recently compiled by the World Bank to generate … a sample of 75 countries that together account for more than three-quarters of the world's production of those …
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"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional … sector policies are generated without a formal model of global markets or even price elasticity estimates. "--World Bank web …
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