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The Gold Pool (1961-1968) was one of the most ambitious cases of central bank cooperation in history. Major central banks pooled interventions – sharing profits and losses – to stabilize the dollar price of gold. Why did it collapse? From at least 1964, the fate of the Pool was in fact tied...
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not in others and would lead to a politically highly difficult discussion of monetary governance …
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In this paper we focus on the different historical regime experiences of the core and the periphery. Before 1914 advanced countries adhered to gold while periphery countries either emulated the advanced countries or floated. Some peripheral countries were especially vulnerable to financial...
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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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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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cross country comparison in the post World War II period of 84 countries arrayed from very low to very high per capita …
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of both advanced and emerging countries during two periods of globalization -- the pre-World War I classical gold … the two eras of globalization reflects factors such as strong cross-country interdependence fostered through links to gold …
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globalization that goes back to the 1870s may end in turmoil just like the first wave which ended after World War I. It is too soon …The recent rise of populist anti-globalization political movements has led to concerns that the current wave of … across the world after the crisis. This suggests either a pause in the pace of integration or more likely a slowing down …
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This paper compares the recent global crisis and recession to earlier international financial crises and recessions. Based on existing chronologies of banking, currency and debt crises we identify clusters of crises. We use an identification of extreme events and a weighting scheme based on real...
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Was foreign currency denominated debt a determinant of exchange rate and monetary policy during the Great Depression? Policy makers of the day thought so. High-frequency bond price data show depreciation was associated with elevated risk premia on public debt. We also show that foreign currency...
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