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Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hunderd Years Ago?

Bordo, Michael D. - 1999

for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …

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Global Macro-Financial Cycles and Spillovers

Ha, Jongrim - 2020

We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...

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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2009

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....

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Financial Globalization : A Reappraisal

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2006

The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels with a variety of apparently conflicting results. We attempt to provide a unified conceptual framework for organizing this vast and growing...

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Keeping Capital Flowing : The Role of the IMF

Bordo, Michael D. - 2004

In this paper, we examine the IMF's role in maintaining the access of emerging market economies to international capital markets. We find evidence that both macroeconomic aggregates and capital flows improve following the adoption of an IMF program, although they may initially deteriorate...

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Crises Now and Then : What Lessons from the Last Era of Financial Globalization

Eichengreen, Barry - 2002

international monetary framework was responsible for the relatively short-lived and mild nature of pre-World War I financial crises …

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Are Financial Crises Becoming Increasingly More Contagious? What is the Historical Evidence on Contagion?

Bordo, Michael D. - 2000

We examine the evidence of contagion during the pre World War I era and the interwar and contrast our findings with the …

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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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Real Versus Pseudo-International Systemic Risk : Some Lessons from History

Bordo, Michael D. - 1995

This paper considers the meaning of domestic and international systemic risk. It examines scenarios that have been adduced as creating systemic risk both within countries and among them. It distinguishes between the concepts of real and pseudo-systemic risk. We examine the history of episodes...

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The International Monetary System and International Financial System as an Analogy to the Copernican Heliocentric system : A simple multi-layers network model with simultaneous reg...

Bordo, Michael D.; Bastidon, Cécile - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The evolution of the IMS and IFS in the past several hundred years can be viewed through the lens of the Copernican heliocentric system developed over 500 years ago. We trace out the evolution across regimes of the IMS and IFS in terms of network representations of the Copernican system. We...

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