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Mutual assistance between Federal Reserve Banks, 1913-1960 as prolegomena to the TARGET2 debate

Eichengreen, Barry; Mehl, Arnaud; Chiţu, Livia; … - 2014

them to mutualise their gold reserves in emergency situations. Gold reserve sharing was especially important in response to … union. But fortunes could change quickly, with emergency recipients of gold turning into providers. Because regional …

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Was the emergence of the international gold standard expected? Melodramatic evidence from Indian government securities

Flandreau, Marc; Oosterlinck, Kim - 2011

The emergence of the gold standard has for a long time been viewed as inevitable. Fluctuations of the gold …-silver exchange rate in world markets were accused to lead to brutal and unsustainable switches of bimetallic countries' money … analyze agents' expectations between 1860 and 1890. The intuition is that the spread between gold and silver bonds issued by …

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Shooting on a moving target : explaining European Bank rates during the interwar period

Wandschneider, Kirsten; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009

to the Great Depression? How did countries balance the externals demands of the gold standard with domestic policy … estimate central bank rate reaction functions for a panel of 22 countries during the inter-war gold standard. The estimates …

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Containment and Resolution in the Financial Crisis: Too Little, Too Late

Honohan, Patrick - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 4, pp. 22-27

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Monetary Instability, Lack of Integration, and the Curse of a Commodity Money Standard. The German Lands, c.1400–1900 A. D.

Rössner, Philipp Robinson - In: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital 47 (2014) 2, pp. 297-340

Currency debasement, defined as a loss of precious metal content (intrinsic value) of the circulating penny currencies over time, was a common feature in the monetary history of Europe, c. 1400–1900. Over the centuries the loss rate was sustained; between 1400 and 1900 A. D. the (south) German...

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A century of macroeconomic and monetary thought at the National Bank of Belgium

Maes, Ivo - 2010

"A century of macroeconomic and monetary thought at the National Bank of Belgium" traces the history of economic research at the National Bank of Belgium, from the early decades of the 20th century to its present functioning in the Eurosystem. The study also goes into the major economic policy...

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