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Destabilizing the global monetary system : Germany's adoption of the gold standard in the early 1870s

Wiegand, Johannes - 2019

bimetallism, id est, a near-universal fixed exchange rate system in which (mostly) France stabilized the exchange value between … France, which would have severed the link between gold and silver currencies. Without reform, Germany would thus have risked … accommodation, however. Victory in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71 allowed Germany to force accommodation, but only until France …

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France and the Breakdown of the Bretton Woods International Monetary System

Simard, Dominique - 1994

The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...

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Instruments of debtstruction : a new database of interwar debt

End, Nicolas; Marinkov, Marina; Miryugin, Fedor - 2019

We construct a new, comprehensive instrument-level database of sovereign debt for 18 advanced and emerging countries over the period 1913-46. The database contains data on amounts outstanding for some 3,800 individual debt instruments as well as associated qualitative information, including...

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The Economic Performance Index (EPI) : an intuitive indicator for assessing a country's economic performance dynamics in an historical perspective

Khramov, Vadim; Ridings Lee, John - 2013

Existing economic indicators and indexes assess economic activity but no single indicator measures the general macro-economic performance of a nation, state, or region in a methodologically simple and intuitive way. This paper proposes a simple, yet informative metric called the Economic...

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Central banking in Latin America : from the gold standard to the golden years

Jácome, Luis Ignacio - 2015

This paper provides a brief historical journey of central banking in Latin America to shed light on the debate about monetary policy in the post-global financial crisis period. The paper distinguishes three periods in Latin America’s central bank history: the early years, when central banks...