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Destabilizing the Global Monetary System : Germany's Adoption of the Gold Standard in the Early 1870s
Wiegand, Johannes - 2019
In 1871-73, newly unified Germany adopted the gold standard, replacing the silver-based currencies that had been prevalent in most German states until then. The reform sparked a series of steps in other countries that ultimately ended global bimetallism, i.e., a near-universal fixed exchange...
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Regional Monetary Standards and Medieval Bracteates
Svensson, Roger - 2021
strong link between bracteates and periodic re-coinage explain the large number of bracteate types. The classification and … central problem when classifying bracteates is that most of them are anonymous, i.e., there are seldom any legends or letters …. However, bracteates struck in closely located mints almost always have the same regional monetary standard. In this study, I …
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How are inflation targets set?
Horváth, Roman; Matějů, Jakub - 2011
This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding on how inflation targets are set. For this reason, we first gather evidence from official central bank and government publications and from a questionnaire sent to central banks on how inflation targets are set; we then estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798081
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How are Inflation Targets Set?
Horváth, Roman - 2010
This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding on how inflation targets are set. For this reason, we first gather evidence from official central bank and government publications and from a questionnaire sent to central banks on how inflation targets are set; we then estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136517
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Verdict on the Crash : Causes and Policy Implications
Booth, Philip - 2009
This monograph challenges the myth that the recent banking crisis was caused by insufficient statutory regulation of financial markets. Though it finds that statutory regulation failed, and that market participants took more risks than they should have done, it appears that statutory regulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156184
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Modern Challenges of Monetary Policy Strategies : Inflation and Devaluation Influence on Economic Development of the Country
Abuselidze, George - 2020
The article discusses causes and socio-economic peculiarities of one of the most difficult and undesirable condition for the economy-inflation and devaluation. The purpose of the research is to analyze the socio-economic results of inflation and devaluation in Georgia and to determine the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835155
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Moderate Inflation and the Deflation-Depression Link
Benhabib, Jess - 2007
In a recent paper, Atkeson and Kehoe (2004) demonstrated the lack of a robust empirical relationship between inflation and growth for a cross-section of countries with 19th and 20th century data, concluding that the historical evidence only provides weak support for the contention that deflation...
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Renewable Energy : Stabilising Money and Society
Turnbull, Shann - 2017
This chapter explains how the generation of renewable energy and the creation of sustainable communities can guide capitalism to survive climate change on a self-reinforcing basis. The process depends upon introducing an ecological “use it or lose it” rule for owning money, land, buildings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945816
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Monetary Facts Revisited
Gertler, Pavel - 2016
This paper uses a cross-country database covering 46 economies over the post-war period to revisit two key monetary facts: (i) the long-run link between money growth and inflation and (ii) the link between credit growth and financial crises. The analysis reveals that the former has weakened over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989876
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Why Governments Failed to Realize Prosperity and How to Structure a Sound Economic System
Kababji, Maher Diab - 2016
Happiness sums up people's attainments from living. Economics is concerned largely with prosperity as the material contributor to happiness. Prosperity is a relative term rather than an absolute one. Prosperity level can be defined as the feasible material standard of living that an economy can...
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