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In 1871-73, newly unified Germany adopted the gold standard, replacing the silver-based currencies that had been … block. Why did Germany switch to gold and set the train of destructive events in motion? Both a review of the … France, which would have severed the link between gold and silver currencies. Without reform, Germany would thus have risked …
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The end of the Bretton Woods regime and the fall of the Iron Curtain deepened the export orientation of the German model of the economy. Only after entry into the Monetary Union, however, did rising exports turn into a persistent export–import gap that became a problem for other eurozone...
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This paper explores the main channels of international transmission of economic disturbances under the Bretton Woods System and presents evidence on the short-run international transmission of inflation under that system. There appears to have been little short-run international transmission of...
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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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monetary contraction. But given Germany's central role in the European Monetary System (EMS), we can also shed light on debates …
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Using a four-country Mundell-Fleming model including portfolio and wealth effects, we explore the question whether some types of policy coordination could improve the outcomes of a financial shock like the Asian crisis. Time-consistent equilibria are computed: a Nash equilibrium, a target zone...
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