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International Policy Coordination : The Long View

Eichengreen, Barry - 2013

This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...

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Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Mobility : How Much of the Swoboda Thesis Survives?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2010

Alexander Swoboda is one of the originators of the bipolar view that capital mobility creates pressure for countries to abandon intermediate exchange rate arrangements in favor of greater flexibility and harder pegs. This paper takes another look at the evidence for this hypothesis using two...

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Was There Really an Earlier Period of International Financial Integration Comparable to Today?

Bordo, Michael D.; Eichengreen, Barry; Kim, Jongwoo - 2021

In this paper we reconsider the international market integration, starting at high levels in the late nineteenth century, collapsing between the wars, and recovering gradually after 1945 to reach levels comparable to pre-1914 in the 1990's. The empirical evidence we survey suggests that in some...

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Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

Eichengreen, Barry - 2021

, with the spread of globalization, there is a new periphery, Asia, but the same old core, the United States, with the same … interest. This image of the current system as Bretton Woods reborn also overlooks how the world has changed since the 1960s … resembling the Bretton Woods System, it is not long for this world …

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Does Trade Raise Income? Evidence from the Twentieth Century

Irwin, Douglas A.; Terviö, Marko - 2021

pre- World War I, the interwar, and the post-war periods, this paper finds that the Frankel-Romer result is robust to …

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Coping with Shocks and Shifts : The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2013

shifts. By shocks we mean sudden jolts to the world economy in the form of financial crises and deep recessions, or wars and …

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The Role of History in Bilateral Trade Flows

Eichengreen, Barry; Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021

This paper investigates the theory and evidence that history plays a role in shaping the direction of international trade. Because there are reasons to anticipate a positive correlation between the predominant direction of trade flows in the past and membership in preferential arrangements in...

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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021

in all world markets and to help secure 20 percent of the Japanese semiconductor market for foreign firms within five …

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The Impact of Federation on Australia's Trade Flows

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2006

In 1901, six Australian states joined together in political and economic union, creating an internal free trade area and adopting a common external tariff. This paper investigates the impact of federation on Australia's internal and international trade flows by studying changes in the...

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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff : A Quantitative Assessment

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021

In the two years after the imposition of the Smoot-Hawley tariff in June 1930, the volume of U.S. imports fell over 40 percent. To what extent can this collapse of trade be attributed to the tariff itself versus other factors such as declining income or foreign retaliation? Partial and general...

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