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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 crisis of the advanced economies in 2008-09 has focused new attention on money and credit fluctuations, financial crises, and policy responses. We study the behavior of money, credit, and macroeconomic indicators over the long run based on a new historical dataset for 14 countries over the...
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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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This paper examines the role of corruption in the design of monetary policies for developing countries and obtains … corruption. Second, the optimal degree of conservatism for a Rogoff (1985)-type central banker is an inverse function of the … corruption level. Third, either an optimally-designed inflation target or an optimal conservative central banker is preferableto …
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In the July/August issue of Intereconomics, Silke Tober criticised a proposal put forth by Andrew Watt to solve the euro crisis through the use of monetary financing of the public sector. Tober argued that there are valid reasons to keep monetary and fiscal policy separate from one another and...
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strong dampening effects of the financial crisis on the real economy and by the worldwide contagion of the crisis, including …
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This paper highlights that the EMU transition process itself can pose challenges to individual accession countries and draws policy implications for ERM II. Differences in financial market development and international liabilities underscore the risks and benefits of ERM II, and may lead to...
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