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U.S. Intervention During the Bretton Woods Era : 1962-1973

Bordo, Michael D. - 2011

By the early 1960s, outstanding U.S. dollar liabilities began to exceed the U.S. gold stock, suggesting that the United States could not completely maintain its pledge to convert dollars into gold at the official price. This raised uncertainty about the Bretton Woods parity grid, and speculation...

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From World Banker to World Venture Capitalist : US External Adjustment and the Exorbitant Privilege

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2005

Does the center country of the International Monetary System enjoy an "exorbitant privilege" that significantly weakens its external constraint as has been asserted in some European quarters? Using a newly constructed dataset, we perform a detailed analysis of the historical evolution of US...

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The External Impact of China's Exchange Rate Policy : Evidence from Firm Level Data

Eichengreen, Barry - 2011

China's exchange rate policy in 2005 and 2010 and data on 6,050 firms in 44 countries. Renminbi appreciation has a positive … effect on firms exporting to China but little positive or even a negative impact on those providing inputs for China …'s processing exports. Stock prices rise for firms competing with China in their home market while falling for firms importing …

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From the Exchange Stabilization Fund to the International Monetary Fund

Bordo, Michael - 2001

We highlight the elements of the operation of the U.S. Exchange Stabilization Fund that Harry Dexter White, who directed the Treasury's division of monetary research, transferred to his plan for the operation of the International Monetary Fund. The elements included the principle that all...

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Do We Really Need a New International Monetary Compact?

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2000

In recent years, many countries have instituted monetary reforms aimed at improving anti-inflation credibility. Is it a problem, however, that international welfare spillover effects seldom receive much consideration in the design of monetary reforms? Surprisingly, the answer may be no. Under...

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Learning About Intervention Target Zones

Klein, Michael W. - 1991

This paper provides a framework for evaluating how market participants' beliefs about foreign exchange target zones change as they learn about central bank intervention policy. In order to examine this behavior, we first generalize the standard target zone model to allow for intra-marginal...

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Target Zones Big and Small

Delgado, Francisco - 1991

Under different assumptions about the underlying monetary shocks, we study target zones of various widths and the effect they have on variables like the interest differential. The stochastic disturbances assumed are successively a non-zero mean random walk and a mean reverting process. The...

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The Effectiveness of Foreign-Exchange Intervention : Recent Experience

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1988

Since the September 1985 Plaza Hotel announcement by the Group of Five industrial countries, a substantial realignment of exchange rates has been achieved. At the same time, foreign exchange market intervention, much of it concerted and much of it sterilized, has been undertaken on a scale not...

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Why Is the Euro Punching Below Its Weight?

Ilzetzki, Ethan - 2020

On the twentieth anniversary of its inception, the euro has yet to expand its role as an international currency. We document this fact with a wide range of indicators including its role as an anchor or reference in exchange rate arrangements--which we argue is a portmanteau measure--and as a...

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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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