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The Future of EMU : What Does the History of Monetary Unions Tell Us?
Bordo, Michael D. - 1999
The creation of EMU and the ECB has triggered a discussion of the future of EMU. Independent observers have pointed to a number of shortcomings or hazard areas' in the construction of EMU, such as the absence of a central lender of last resort function for EMU, the lack of a central authority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471419
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Tales from the Bretton Woods
Bordo, Michael D. - 2014
An analogy has been made between the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 and the recent Eurozone crisis. The … (analogous to Germany today).However Bretton Woods is very different from the Eurozone in many dimensions. An even better analogy … mechanism for the Eurozone. In the early 1930s massive gold flows from the interior, hard hit by banking panics, to New York …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051313
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A Long Term Perspective on the Euro
Bordo, Michael D. - 2008
This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464832
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A Fiscal Union for the Euro : Some Lessons from History
Bordo, Michael D. - 2011
The recent financial crisis 2007-2009 was the longest and the deepest recession since the Great Depression of 1930. The crisis that originated in subprime mortgage markets was spread and amplified through globalised financial markets and resulted in severe debt crises in several European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461278
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Tales from the Bretton Woods
Bordo, Michael D. - 2014
An analogy has been made between the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 and the recent Eurozone crisis. The …However Bretton Woods is very different from the Eurozone in many dimensions. An even better analogy than BWS is a … Eurozone. In the early 1930s massive gold flows from the interior, hard hit by banking panics, to New York City were similar to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458395
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A Long Term Perspective on the Euro
Bordo, Michael D. - 2008
This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772728
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A Fiscal Union for the Euro : Some Lessons from History
Bordo, Michael D. - 2011
The recent financial crisis 2007-2009 was the longest and the deepest recession since the Great Depression of 1930. The crisis that originated in subprime mortgage markets was spread and amplified through globalised financial markets and resulted in severe debt crises in several European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120322
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The Future of Emu : What Does the History of Monetary Unions Tell Us?
Bordo, Michael D.; Jonung, Lars - 2021
The creation of EMU and the ECB has triggered a discussion of the future of EMU. Independent observers have pointed to a number of shortcomings or hazard areas' in the construction of EMU, such as the absence of a central lender of last resort function for EMU, the lack of a central authority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246987
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Does Drinking Really Decrease in Bad Times?
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2001
This paper investigates the relationship between macroeconomic conditions, alcohol use, and drinking problems using individual-level data from the 1987-1999 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We confirm the procyclical variation in overall drinking identified in previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470207
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Parental Leave and Child Health
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 1998
This study investigates whether rights to paid parental leave improve pediatric health, as measured by birth weights and infant or child mortality. Aggregate data are used for nine European countries over the 1969 through 1994 period. Year and country fixed-effects are held constant and most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472254