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Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-01-22
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable. In Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods, Barry Eichengreen takes issue with the argument that today's international financial system is largely analogous to the Bretton Woods System of the period 1958 to 1973. Then, as now, it has been argued, the United States ran balance of payment deficits, provided international reserves to other countries, and acted as export market of last resort for the rest of the world. Then, as now, the story continues, other countrie...

Hall of Mirrors
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 521

Hall of Mirrors

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"A brilliantly conceived dual-track account of the two greatest economic crises of the last century and their consequences"--

The European Economy Since 1945
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 521

The European Economy Since 1945

However, this inheritance of economic and social institutions that was the solution until around 1973--when Europe had to switch from growth based on brute-force investment and the acquisition of known technologies to growth based on increased efficiency and innovation--then became the problem.

Hall of Mirrors
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 521

Hall of Mirrors

"A brilliantly conceived dual-track account of the two greatest economic crises of the last century and their consequences"--

Can Financial Markets be Controlled?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Can Financial Markets be Controlled?

The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdomon how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check.Since then a wave of reform and re-regulation has crashed overbanks and markets. Financial firms are regulated as neverbefore. But have these measures been successful, and do they go farenough? In this smart new polemic, former central banker andfinancial regulator, Howard Davies, responds with a resounding‘no’. The problems at the heart of the financial crisisremain. There is still no effective co-ordination of internationalmonetary policy. The financial sector is still too big and,far from protecting the economy and the tax payer, recentgovernment legislation is exposing both to even greater risk. To address these key challenges, Davies offers a radicalalternative manifesto of reforms to restore market discipline andcreate a safer economic future for us all.

Public Debt Through the Ages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 60

Public Debt Through the Ages

We consider public debt from a long-term historical perspective, showing how the purposes for which governments borrow have evolved over time. Periods when debt-to-GDP ratios rose explosively as a result of wars, depressions and financial crises also have a long history. Many of these episodes resulted in debt-management problems resolved through debasements and restructurings. Less widely appreciated are successful debt consolidation episodes, instances in which governments inheriting heavy debts ran primary surpluses for long periods in order to reduce those burdens to sustainable levels. We analyze the economic and political circumstances that made these successful debt consolidation episodes possible.

How to Achieve Inclusive Growth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 807

How to Achieve Inclusive Growth

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining social mobility, economic fragility, unbalanced growth due to technology and globalization, and existential danger from climate change are urgent global concerns of our day. These issues are intertwined. They therefore require a holistic framework to examine their interplay and bring the various strands together. Leading academic economists have partnered ...

Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 163

Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back

Highlights the interactions between institutions and policy choices, as well as the importance of historical constraints on Britain's relative economic decline.

Aftershocks of Monetary Unification
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 26

Aftershocks of Monetary Unification

Once upon a time, in the 1990s, it was widely agreed that neither Europe nor the United States was an optimum currency area, although moderating this concern was the finding that it was possible to distinguish a regional core and periphery (Bayoumi and Eichengreen, 1993). Revisiting these issues, we find that the United States is remains closer to an optimum currency area than the Euro Area. More intriguingly, the Euro Area shows striking changes in correlations and responses which we interpret as reflecting hysteresis with a financial twist, in which the financial system causes aggregate supply and demand shocks to reinforce each other. An implication is that the Euro Area needs vigorous, coordinated regulation of its banking and financial systems by a single supervisor—that monetary union without banking union will not work.

The Marshall Plan Lessons Learned for the 21st Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 139

The Marshall Plan Lessons Learned for the 21st Century

This book examines the historical, diplomatic, economic, and strategic aspects of the European Recovery Program (ERP) - popularly known as the Marshall Plan.