We identify similarities and differences in the scale and nature of the banking crises in 2008-2009 and the Great Depression, and analyse differences in the policy response to the two crises in light of the prevailing international monetary systems. We find that the scale of the banking crisis,...

Research typically treats exchange rate regime selection as exogenous. Using the Asian Financial Crisis as a case study, we show that countries that peg in 1996 and countries that float in 1996 are, on average, different from each other on variables that affect the outcomes of interest. After...