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International Policy Coordination : The Long View

Eichengreen, Barry - 2011

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

Bordo, Michael D. - 1998

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

Eichengreen, Barry - 2008

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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Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

Eichengreen, Barry - 2004

, 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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The Role of History in Bilateral Trade Flows

Eichengreen, Barry - 1996

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 - 2004

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 Rise and Fall of a Barbarous Relic : The Role of Gold in the International Monetary SYstem

Bordo, Michael D. - 1998

inelastically supplied precious metal and elastcially suppled foreign exchange to meet the the world economy's demand for reserves …

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Implications of the Great Depression for the Development of the International Monetary System

Bordo, Michael D. - 1997

monetary system from 1928-1971 and simulate its implications for the determination of the world price level and the durability … implications for economic growth and resource allocation of allowing 1920s-style international capital mobility after World War II …

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Macroeconomic Adjustment Under Bretton Woods and the Post-Bretton Woods Float : An Impulse-Response Analysis

Bayoumi, Tamim - 1992

We use time-series methods to estimate a simple aggregate-supply aggregate-demand model in order to analyze the comparative performance of fixed- and flexible-exchange-rate systems and test competing hypotheses designed to explain shifts between exchange-rate regimes. The paper provides a...

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Three Perspectives on the Bretton Woods System

Eichengreen, Barry - 1992

assess the operation of the post-World War II international monetary system. This paper considers the history and …

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