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Before the Accord : U.S. Monetary-Financial Policy 1945-51

Eichengreen, Barry - 1990

Thia paper analyzes U.S. monetary-financial policy in the period leading up to the Treasury-Fed Accord. We model policy as an implicit target zone for the price level and an explicit zone for interest rates, and the difficulties on the eve of the Accord as an incipient run on a collapsing...

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The Economic Consequences of the Franc Poincare

Eichengreen, Barry - 1986

In this paper we reassess the cyclical performance of the French economy in the 1920s, focusing in particular on the … exports as a share of GDP turned down as early as 1928, the economy continued to expand for several subsequent years …. Investment, not exports, emerges as the proximate source of the French economy's resistance to the Great Depression. And fiscal …

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From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis : Similarities, Differences and Lessons

Almunia, Miguel - 2009

The Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Credit Crisis of the 2000s had similar causes but elicited strikingly different policy responses. It may still be too early to assess the effectiveness of current policy responses, but it is possible to analyze monetary and fiscal policies in the...

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From Benign Neglect to Malignant Preoccupation : U.S. Balance-of-Payments Policy in the 1960s

Eichengreen, Barry - 2000

expanding world economy was dollar balances. The role of the United States was to act as banker to the world, borrowing short …

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International Economic Policy : Was There a Bush Doctrine?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2008

While many political scientists and diplomatic historians see the Bush presidency as a distinctive epoch in American foreign policy, we argue that there was no Bush Doctrine in foreign economic policy. The Bush administration sought to advance a free trade agenda but could not avoid the use of...

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Fiscal Policy and Monetary Union : Is There a Tradeoff between Federalism and Budgetary Restrictions?

Eichengreen, Barry - 1996

The Maastricht Treaty on Europe Union features an Excessive Deficit Procedure limiting the freedom to borrow of governments participating in the European monetary union. One justification is to prevent states from over- borrowing and demanding a bailout which could divert the European Central...

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Sustained Debt Reduction : The Jamaica Exception

Arslanalp, Serkan; Eichengreen, Barry; Henry, Peter Blair - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Reducing high public debts is key for countries seeking to restore fiscal capacity and resilience in the wake of recent crises. But large debt reductions are rare. Jamaica stands out for reducing its debt from 144 percent of GDP to 72 percent over the last decade, a record achieved by running...

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Is Poland at Risk of a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2008

We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption. Our answer, inevitably, is mixed. On the one hand the fact that Poland is an outlier, credit-growth wise, accentuates the danger of a boom if one believes in mean reversion....

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The Breakup of the Euro Area

Eichengreen, Barry - 2007

The possibility that the euro area might break up was being raised even before the single currency existed. These scenarios were then lent new life five or six years on, when appreciation of the euro and problems of slow growth in various member states led politicians to blame the European...

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Relaxing the External Constraint : Europe in the 1930s

Eichengreen, Barry - 1990

This paper documents the effects of exchange rates and the external constraint during the interwar years. In the absence of international policy coordination, exchange rate depreciation is shown to have been a necessary precondition for the adoption of policies promoting recovery from the Great...

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