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Exchange Rate Regime Choices in Small Open Economies from Bretton Woods to Inflation Targeting
After centuries of metallic monies, for a long time, our understanding of fiat money had remained rudimentary and often controversial. Successive...
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Bretton Woods System
This chapter consists of a review that assesses the proceedings of a conference that looks back on the Bretton Woods system. The review outlines the...
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Das Bretton-Woods-System und der Internationale Währungsfonds
1944 wurde ein neues internationales Währungssystem mit festen Wechselkursen, das Bretton-Woods-System, beschlossen. Zum gleichen Zeitpunkt wurden in...
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Current Account Imbalances after Bretton Woods
This paper uses principal components analysis to describe the evolution of current account imbalances in a sample of 18 Organization for Economic...
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Monetary policy frameworks since Bretton Woods, across the world and its regions
The Comprehensive Monetary Policy Framework (CMPF) project, which considers de jure and de facto, domestic (money, inflation) and external (exchange...
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The Bretton Woods System
As the end of World War II approached, the Allies, and in particular the USA, were determined to create a new international monetary order. Many...
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Bretton Woods Revisited
Examines how it may be possible to return to a more stable, public, global monetary order.
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US Inflation and the Imbalances of the Bretton Woods System, 1965–1973
This chapter argues that the key deep underlying fundamental for the growing international imbalances leading to the collapse of the Bretton Woods...
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The Imbalances of the Bretton Woods System 1965 to 1973: U.S. Inflation, the Elephant in the Room
This paper argues that the key deep underlying fundamental for the growing international imbalances leading to the collapse of the Bretton Woods...
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At the Origins of European Monetary Cooperation: Triffin, Bretton Woods, and the European Payments Union
This chapter explores how the economic and political difficulties of the interwar period and the immediate postwar era forced politicians,...
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The Importance of Sound Monetary Policy: Some Lessons for Today from Canada’s Experience with Floating Exchange Rates Since 1950
In this paper, we revisit the Canadian experience with floating exchange rates since 1950. Canada was a pioneer in successfully adopting a floating...
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160 Years of aggregate supply and demand in Switzerland
This paper studies the causes of movements in inflation and output in Switzerland over 160 years between 1855 and 2015. Aggregate supply and demand...
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Social–financial approach for analyzing financial transitions
This study proposes a social-financial approach (SFA) to fill the methodological research gap in strategic policy design for managing financial...
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Macroeconomic Development from the Late-1960s to the Mid-1980s
The inflationary processes during the 1970s cannot be understood without considering the transition from the Bretton Woods system to a system of...
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Trojan Horses: The Long Shadow of the Euro Area Sovereign Crisis
The creation of the euro is truly a remarkable and historical achievement—this author, in a piece cowritten with a former colleague (and dear...
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Keynes’s Analysis of External Payments and the Plans for a World Monetary Reform
Keynes’s interest in international payments goes back at least to the late 1910s, when he dealt with the reparations of the First World War, and was...
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The Latest Macroeconomic Analysis of International Payments
International economics theories, from the classical to the present ones, are an invaluable source of clues to find the missing pieces required for a...
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World Bank, IMF, and WTO as Agents of Financial Imperialism
This chapter examines the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as sustainers of international...
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Das derzeitige globale Ungleichgewicht ist tief verwurzelt
Die auf Produktivitätsverbesserung ausgerichtete globalisierte Industrialisierung begann mit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs, als 1944 in Bretton...
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The Global Debate on Finance Capitalism
This chapter discusses the relationship between neoliberalism and finance capitalism or financialisation and establishes a conceptual framework for...