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The International Monetary System : Living with Asymmetry
Obstfeld, Maurice - 2011
system: international liquidity and exchange rate management. Despite radical changes since World War II in the market … context for liquidity and exchange rate concerns, they remain central to discussions of international macroeconomic policy … coordination. To take two prominent examples of specific (and related) coordination problems, liquidity issues are paramount in …
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The Trilemma in History : Tradeoffs among Exchange Rates, Monetary Policies, and Capital Mobility
Obstfeld, Maurice - 2004
The exchange-rate regime is often seen as constrained by the monetary policy trilemma, which imposes a stark tradeoff among exchange stability, monetary independence, and capital market openness. Yet the trilemma has not gone without challenge. Some (e.g., Calvo and Reinhart 2001, 2002) argue...
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Monetary Sovereignty, Exchange Rates, and Capital Controls : The Trilemma in the Interwar period
Obstfeld, Maurice - 2004
The interwar period was marked by the end of the classical gold standard regime and new levels of macroeconomic disorder in the world economy. The interwar disorder often is linked to policies inconsistent with the constraint of the open-economy trilemma the inability of policymakers...
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