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Reserve Accumulation, Macroeconomic Stabilization, and Sovereign Risk
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Javier Bianchi and César Sosa-Padilla
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 91, Issue 4, July 2024, Pages 2053–2103, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdad075
Published: 19 July 2023
.... 2023 This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) International reserves Sovereign default Macroeconomic stabilization Fixed exchange rates...
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Fetters of gold and paper
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Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 26, Issue 3, Autumn 2010, Pages 370–384, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grq018
Published: 01 October 2010
... of fixed exchange rates, and how these policies had their most potent effects in the worst peaceful economic periods in modern times. While we are lucky to have avoided another catastrophe like the Great Depression in 2008–9, mainly by virtue of policy-makers’ aggressive use of monetary and fiscal stimuli...
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A Structural Analysis of the Determinants of Inflation in the CEMAC Region
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Rafael Portillo
Published: 22 March 2018
... the plausible assumption of limited capital mobility can help contain equilibrium appreciation pressures and therefore inflation, but at the cost of crowding out the private sector. Attempting to use monetary policy to contain inflation under a fixed exchange rate has important drawbacks, which highlights...
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European Monetary Cooperation, 1945–1974: Background and Debates
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Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol
Published: 05 July 2012
...This chapter explores several key ideas necessary to understand how monetary coordination works. It first considers the so-called triangle of compatibilities, or trilemma. According to Robert Mundell, of the three components of his “holy trinity”—high capital mobility, fixed exchange rates...
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The Dynamics of Exchange Rate Regimes
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Michael W. Klein and Jay C. Shambaugh
Published: 20 November 2009
... and Rogoff, “The Mirage of Fixed Exchange Rates”, and cites the existence of a significant number of stable, meaningful exchange rate regimes that go against recent research. The chapter delves deeper into the history of fixed, floating and flipping exchange rate regimes in relation to the number of exchange...
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Published: 29 August 2008
...This chapter takes issue with a recent finding which holds that even if an economy is hit by real shocks, fixed exchange rates may be preferable if the nominal prices of both exports and imports are preset in the domestic currency. It argues that a minor modification of the Devereux–Engel model...
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International Financial Flows and Financial Crises after the End of the Bretton Woods System
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Christopher M. Meissner
Published: 18 January 2024
... of economic growth. The determinants of these crises varied over the years, but cross-border capital flows, fixed exchange rates were often involved. Incentive problems like moral hazard played a role, as did the structure of international lending and local policy choices. The successive waves of crises...
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Published: 28 January 2016
... on the International Monetary Fund 38 can be summarized as follows: The system designed at the conference at Bretton Woods in July 1944 was the first full attempt to establish an international monetary order with fixed exchange rates based on an international treaty. The institution of the International...
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Published: 15 November 2002
.... The shock and the associated monetary policy resulted to an increase in wage inflation. Social loss is larger under fixed rates than under the discretionary solution presented. Even if fixed exchange rates enjoy a credibility advantage, they do not yield higher welfare than does optimal floating under...
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Legal Tender
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Farley Grubb
Published: 06 July 2023
... index South Carolina taxes abandonment and Smith Adam Wealth of Nations The Smith exports inside money “Legal Tender of Paper Money in America The” Franklin outside money time discounting breach-of-contract tort law congressional powers dominant medium-of-exchange fixed exchange rates non...
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Exchange Rate Regimes and International Trade
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Michael W. Klein and Jay C. Shambaugh
Published: 20 November 2009
... of the economically meaningful influence of fixed exchange rates and exchange rate regimes on trade. Further literature is discussed and investigated to give a broader scope of the subject. The chapter also demonstrates the value of gravity models as a successful empirical framework in international economics...
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What Scope for Monetary Policy? Experiences from the Nordic Countries after the Financial Crisis
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Anders Møller Christensen and Niels Lynggård Hansen
Published: 05 February 2015
...Table 5.1. Significance of the monetary-policy regime to macroeconomic performance, difference-in-difference estimation, 1972–2011 Dependent variable Inflation level Inflation volatility Variability in the output gap (1) (2) (1) (2) (1) (2) Fixed exchange rates...
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Open Economy Complications
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Joseph E. Stiglitz and others
Published: 31 August 2006
... currency bank exposure to Korea real estate Thailand default goals government expenditures Malaysia overshooting shocks exchange rate policy capital flows open economy inflation balance sheets fixed exchange rates flexible exchange rates interest rates investor confidence The previous...
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14 Fetters of Gold and Paper
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Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin
Published: 28 February 2013
...This chapter describes why the gold standard and the euro are extreme forms of fixed exchange rates, and how these policies had their most potent effects in the worst peaceful economic periods in modern times. While the world is lucky to have avoided another catastrophe like the Great Depression...
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