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[Rezension] Eichengreen, Barry, Toward a new international financial architecture : Washington, Inst. for Internat. Economics, 1999

Bird, Graham R. - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 22 (1999) 7, pp. 1039-1040

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Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hunderd Years Ago?

Bordo, Michael D. - 1999

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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Lending Booms, Reserves, and the Sustainability of Short-Term Debt : Inferences from the Pricing of Syndicated Bank Loans

Eichengreen, Barry - 1999

This paper analyzes the determinants of spreads on syndicated bank lending to emerging markets, treating the loan-extension and pricing decisions as jointly determined. Compared to the bond market, our findings highlight the role of international banks in providing credit to smaller borrowers...

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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide

Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250 …

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The Anatomy of Financial Crises

Eichengreen, Barry - 1987

A financial crisis is a disturbance to financial markets. associated typically with falling asset prices and insolvency among debtors and intermediaries, which spreads through the financial system, disrupting the marketâ€™s capacity to allocate capital. In this paper we analyze the...

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Public Debt Through the Ages

Eichengreen, Barry - 2019

We consider public debt from a long-term historical perspective, showing how the purposes for which governments borrow have evolved over time. Periods when debt-to-GDP ratios rose explosively as a result of wars, depressions and financial crises also have a long history. Many of these episodes...

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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...

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The Two Waves of Service Sector Growth

Eichengreen, Barry - 2009

The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...

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How the Subprime Crisis Went Global : Evidence from Bank Credit Default Swap Spreads

Eichengreen, Barry - 2009

How did the Subprime Crisis, a problem in a small corner of U.S. financial markets, affect the entire global banking system? To shed light on this question we use principal components analysis to identify common factors in the movement of banks' credit default swap spreads. We find that fortunes...

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Central Bank Transparency : Causes, Consequences and Updates

Dincer, Nergiz - 2009

We present updated estimates of central bank for 100 countries up through 2006 and use them to analyze both the determinants and consequences of monetary policy transparency in an integrated econometric framework. We establish that there has been significant movement in the direction of greater...

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