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Germany and the Young Plan - The role of the German national government, the Reichsbank and the economy in the making of the Young Plan
Pfleiderer, Doris - 2002
involved. The new settlement of the reparations by means of the Young Plan in 1929/30 is one of the most important events in … between the allies and Germany in The Hague in 1929/30 which have been largely ignored in historical research so far. On the … whole the focus of these negotiations on the final settlement of the reparations issue was on the political interests of the …
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Essays in empirical macroeconomics with application to monetary policy in a data-rich environment
Amir Ahmadi, Pooyan - 2010
Diese Dissertation besteht aus vier eigenständigen Aufsätzen. Das erste Kapitel liefert eine Einleitung uns einen Literaturüberblick. Im zweiten Kapitel schätzen wir die Effekte eines geldpolitischen Schocks in einer Bayesianischen faktorerweiterten Vektorautoregression. Als ein...
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14.05 Intermediate Applied Macroeconomics, Fall 2002
Temin, Peter - 2002
Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study three macroeconomic policy problems in depth. Possible topics include long-run economic growth, the macroeconomics of the transition to a modern capitalist society, federal government surpluses and deficits, Social Security, the distribution of earnings...
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Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing
Gulati, Mitu; Buchheit, Lee C. - 2010
There are three reasons for attempting to reach a common understanding of the responsibilities of sovereign borrowers and their lenders. First, the flow of capital to sovereign debtors is exceptionally important to the world economy. Industrialized countries rely on it to finance their budget...
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Facing the Debt Challenge of Countries that are Too Big to Fail
Schwarcz, Steven L. - 2010
The recent financial woes of Greece and other nations are reinvigorating the debate over whether to bail out defaulting countries or, instead, restructure their debt. Bailouts are expensive, in the case of Greece costing potentially hundreds of billions of euros. But a bailout was virtually...
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Innovation after the Revolution: Foreign Sovereign Bond Contracts Since 2003
Gulati, Mitu; Gelpern, Anna - 2009
For over a decade, contracts literature has focused on standardization. Scholars asked how terms become standard, and why they change so rarely. This line of inquiry painted a world where a standard term persists until it is dislodged by another standard term, perhaps after a brief window of...
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How Markets Work: The Lawyer’s Version
Gulati, Mitu; Weidemaier, W. Mark C. - 2011
In this article, we combine two sources of data to shed light on the nature of transactional legal work. The first consists of stories about contracts that circulate widely among elite transactional lawyers. Surprisingly, the stories portray lawyers as ineffective market actors who are...
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Feel-Good Formalism
Gulati, Mitu; Gelpern, Anna - 2009
This essay highlights a phenomenon that has no place in the conventional theory of sophisticated business contracts: the term that makes no sense as an enforceable promise, one that defies functional explanation, one that drafters blush to rationalize in retrospect or chalk up to honest mistake....
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Political Risk and Sovereign Debt Contracts
Gulati, Mitu; Choi, Stephen J.; Posner, Eric A. - 2011
Default on sovereign debt is a form of political risk. Issuers and creditors have responded to this risk both by strengthening the terms in sovereign debt contracts that enable creditors to enforce their debts judicially and by creating terms that enable sovereigns to restructure their debts....
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Essays in International Finance
Daude, Christian - 2008
Access to private capital markets is the most salient difference between emerging market economies and other developing countries. However, in contrast to developed economies, emerging markets have had a troubled relationship with capital fows. In particular, balance of payments and debt crises...
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