Under the classical gold standard (1880-1914), the Bank of France maintained a stable discount rate while the Bank of …, differ so much? How did the Bank of France manage to keep a stable rate and continuously violate the "rules of the game …"? This paper tackles these questions and shows that the domestic asset portfolio of the Bank of France played a crucial role …

an improved current account). France%u2019s decision to suspend the free coinage of silver in 1876 played a paramount … that France%u2019s decision to end bimetallism was exogenous from the viewpoint of countries on the silver standard. To …

standard and endured a sustained inflation, France remained on a bimetallic standard for the war's duration. For wars of … inflation tax although in practice it was not a major source of wartime finance. France, on the other hand, had squandered her …

We reinterpret the commonly held view in the U.S. that France, by following a policy from 1965 to 1968 of deliberately … interwar period and the French Plan of 1943. France used proposals to return to an orthodox gold standard as well as …

-run income loss or gain for countries that experienced crises. This is in contrast to the recent wave of globalization when …