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Floating a "Lifeboat" : The Banque De France and the Crisis of 1889
Hautcoeur, Pierre Cyrille - 2014
When faced with a run on a "systemically important" but insolvent bank in 1889, the Banque de France pre …
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British and French Finance During the Napoleonic Wars
Bordo, Michael D.; White, Eugene N. - 2021
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 …
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France and the Bretton Woods International Monetary System : 1960-1968
Bordo, Michael D.; Simard, Dominique; White, Eugene N. - 2021
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 …
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How Occupied France Financed its Own Exploitation in World War Ii
Occhino, Filippo; Oosterlinck, Kim; White, Eugene N. - 2021
The occupation payments made by France to Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1944 represent one of the largest recorded …
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Danger on the Exchange : How Counterparty Risk Was Managed on the Paris Bourse in the Nineteenth Century
Riva, Angelo - 2010
Over the course of the nineteenth century, the struggles of Paris Bourse to manage counterparty risk revealed the awkward choices that face derivatives exchanges. Shortly after it was founded, the stock exchange, primarily a forward market, instituted a mutual guarantee fund to prevent broker...
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The Evolution of the Financial Stability Mandate : From its Origins to the Present Day
Toniolo, Gianni - 2015
history of six countries where there is sufficient information, three in Europe (England, France, and Italy) and three in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030142
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Unprecedented Actions : The Federal Reserve's Response to the Global Financial Crisis in Historical Perspective
Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2015
-inconsistency problem and moral hazard. Reviewing the evidence for central banks' crisis management in the U.S., the U.K. and France from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031481