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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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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

Rodrik, Dani; Subramanian, Arvind; Trebbi, Francesco - 2021

world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of …

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Is Newer Better? Penn World Table Revisions and Their Impact on Growth Estimates

Johnson, Simon - 2010

This paper sheds light on two problems in the Penn World Table (PWT) GDP estimates. First, we show that these estimates …

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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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The Impact of China on the Exports of Other Asian Countries

Eichengreen, Barry; Rhee, Yeongseop; Tong, Hui - 2021

We analyze the impact of China's growth on the exports of other Asian countries. Our innovation is to distinguish the increase in China's demand for imports from its increased penetration of export markets. Using the gravity model, we disaggregate among commodity types and account for the...

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The External Impact of China's Exchange Rate Policy : Evidence from Firm Level Data

Eichengreen, Barry - 2011

We examine the impact of renminbi revaluation on firm valuations, considering two surprise announcements of changes in China's exchange rate policy in 2005 and 2010 and data on 6,050 firms in 44 countries. Renminbi appreciation has a positive effect on firms exporting to China but little...

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When Did the Dollar Overtake Sterling as the Leading International Currency? Evidence from the Bond Markets

Chitu, Livia - 2012

This paper offers new evidence on the emergence of the dollar as the leading international currency, focusing on its role as currency of denomination in global bond markets. We show that the dollar overtook sterling much earlier than commonly supposed, as early as in 1929. Financial market...

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