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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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Financial Crises, Credit Booms, and External Imbalances : 140 Years of Lessons

Jordà, Òscar - 2010

Do external imbalances increase the risk of financial crises? In this paper, we study the experience of 14 developed …

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Democracy and Globalization

Eichengreen, Barry - 2006

The connections between globalization and democracy are a classic question in international political economy and a topic much debated in foreign policy circles. While the analytical literature is extensive, few previous studies have acknowledged the possibility of bidirectional causality or...

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Current Account Reversals : Always a Problem?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2005

and pre-World War I gold standard eras …

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Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

Eichengreen, Barry - 2004

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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Globalization, Trade, and Development : Some Lessons From History

Taylor, Alan M. - 2002

Recent research in international economic history has opened up new lines of enquiry on the origins of globalization, as well as its causes and consequences. Such findings have the potential to inform contemporary debates and this paper considers what lessons this body of historical work has for...

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The Rise and Fall of World Trade, 1870-1939

Estevadeordal, Antoni - 2002

Measured by the ratio of trade to output, the period 1870 1913 marked the birth of the first era of trade globalization and the period 1914 39 its death. What caused the boom and bust? We use an augmented gravity model to examine the gold standard, tariffs, and transport costs as determinants of...

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A Century of Current Account Dynamics

Taylor, Alan M. - 2002

Recent globalization trends have refocused attention on the historical evolution of international capital mobility over the long run. The issue is examined here using time-series analysis of current-account dynamics for fifteen countries since circa 1850. The inter-war period emerges as an era...

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Globalization and Capital Markets

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2002

The ebb and flow of international capital since the nineteenth century illustrates recurring difficulties, as well as the alternative perspectives from which policymakers have tried to confront them. This paper is devoted to documenting these vicissitudes quantitatively and explaining them....

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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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