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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 commonly viewed either as financial crises or as evidencing systemic …

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Measuring Real Economic Effects of Bailouts : Historical Perspectives on How Countries in Financial Distress Have Fared With and Without Bailouts

Bordo, Michael D. - 2000

In this paper we first trace the changing nature of banking, currency and debt crises from the last century to the present. Each type of crisis has transmogrified in the presence of official intervention and the creation of a safety net. A similar pattern is observed for international rescue...

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The Bretton Woods international monetary system : an historical overview

Bordo, Michael D. - 1992

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Behavioral and Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy Introduction

Carraro, Carlo - 2000

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The Future of EMU : What Does the History of Monetary Unions Tell Us?

Bordo, Michael D. - 1999

The creation of EMU and the ECB has triggered a discussion of the future of EMU. Independent observers have pointed to a number of shortcomings or hazard areas' in the construction of EMU, such as the absence of a central lender of last resort function for EMU, the lack of a central authority...

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A Tax on Output of the Polluting Industry is Not a Tax on Pollution : The Importance of Hitting the Target

Fullerton, Don - 1999

We explore the effects of environmental taxes that imprecisely target pollution. A review of actual policies indicates few (if any) examples of a true tax on pollution. More typically, environmental taxes target an input or output that is correlated with pollution. We construct a simple...

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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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"Unusual, Unstable, Complicated, Unreliable and Temporary" Reinterpreting the Ebb and Flow of Globalization

Bordo, Michael D.; Schenk, Catherine R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

organize: World War I, Bretton Woods, 1970s Great Inflation and Managed Floating. Each turning point was characterized by …

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The Global Velocity Curve 1952-1982

Bordo, Michael D. - 1986

cross country comparison in the post World War II period of 84 countries arrayed from very low to very high per capita …

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The Transformation and Performance of Emerging Market Economies Across the Great Divide of the Global Financial Crisis

Bordo, Michael D. - 2019

The process of central bank (CB) evolution by emerging market economies (EMEs), including central bank independence (CBI) and transparency (CBT), converged towards that of the advanced economies (AEs) before the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-2008. It was greatly aided by the adoption of...

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