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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Bretton Woods"”.
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Bretton Woods and Financial Liberation
The creation of the Bretton Woods system (1945-1971) and the evolution of the financial liberalization that characterized the last quarter of the 20th century and resulted in the contemporary international monetary system remain the most important developments in the international monetary system …
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The political economy of European Monetary Union after the end of the Bretton Woods financial system
The post-Bretton Woods financial system and the globalisation of financial markets have pronounced the unequal distribution of financial power across nation states. The majority of member countries in the eurozone with previously little financial power have chosen monetary integration as a response …
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The Bretton Woods School of Development communication as an 'agent' of modernisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
… the role of communication within the Bretton Woods School of Development Communication as an agent to achieve social and economical change in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study presents social and economic change as intended outcomes of modernisation as supported by this school of thought. …
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Sterling and the Stability of the International Monetary System, 1944-1971
… studies the role of sterling during the Bretton Woods period (1944-1971). The Bretton Woods system has often been described as a dollar system with sterling having lost its relevance as reserve currency. However, despite being a secondary reserve currency and having lost importance, …
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Participatory Alternative Forms of Development, Compared with Orthodox top-down, foreign aid strategies for development in neoliberal Gambia/Africa
… dependence on foreign aid, as a result of the Bretton Woods Institutions and the neoliberalization of Africa, and it juxtaposes the aforementioned with microfinance, as an alternative method for fighting poverty. Empirically, this work examines the potential effectiveness of Reliance Financial …
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Business cycles and the optimum exchange rate of a small open economy : the case of Bahrain
… carried out to examine the effects of the post-Bretton Woods exchange rate arrangements for the BD on the conduct of interest rate policy and domestic inflation. The results reveal that domestic interest rate policy is divorced from domestic fundamentals and that the post-Bretton Woods exchange …
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Hedging against exporting costs and risks in the South African extractive industry
… the Gold Standard and subsequently the Bretton Woods System. The collapse of these systems, especially the Bretton Woods System, led to the almost free movement of exchange rates. The lack of restriction placed on the movement of currencies created volatile markets; which, in turn, gave …
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An American rhetoric of globalism: peace through international economic cooperation in the World War II era
… and the U.S. Congressional debates about the Bretton Woods institutions (1945). Willkie, the failed 1940 Republican presidential candidate, traveled the globe and sometimes served as the President’s proxy, using ethos and presence to encourage Americans to imagine a postwar world that was …
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Tests of purchasing power parity
… Asia, Africa, and the Pacific Rim for the post-Bretton Woods period. It uses cointegration tests to investigate the thesis that relative purchasing power parity exists as a long-run equilibrium condition between country-pairs. It expands upon tests for relative purchasing power parity suggested …
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Regímenes de metas de inflación: un análisis sobre la idoneidad de la teoría de precios en Argentina para el periodo 2003-2017
Luego de la caída del sistema de Bretton Woods se inició un proceso de financiarización de la economía. En este contexto, se empezaron a diagramar políticas antiinflacionarias que culminaron con el surgimiento de los regímenes de metas de inflación en la década de 1990. Estos regímenes se basan en …
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The Impact of Fiscal and Monetary Policy on the Cross-Sectional Value Factor
… by fiscal and monetary policy in the post-Bretton Woods era. Using a custom set of 768 value factors formed on the intersection of five portfolio construction design choices, which I take to represent the concept of the "value" premium in aggregate, I find that both structural and …
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The position of the emerging countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS), in the further development of the multilateral trading system.
… following the 1971 failure of the Bretton Woods system of fixed international exchange rates, in terms of which exchange rates were tied to the price of gold, and the 1973 oil crisis, the need for a well co-ordinated multilateral trading system at the highest level became evident.2 …
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A evolução da política cambial em Portugal e a nova política cambial do euro
… passando posteriormente pelos Sistemas de Bretton Woods e Monetário Europeu, até à entrada em vigor da moeda única, em 1999. Propomo-nos abordar as Teorias e Técnicas da Política Cambial e o seu impacto na actividade económica, assim como as Opções Cambiais nos Países em Vias de …
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Cosmopolitan Democracy: Re-evaluation of Globalization and World Economic System
… institutions such as the United Nations and Bretton Woods Institutes with regard to addressing problems in a democratic manner caused by globalization. Chapter 2 discusses contemporary political climate through the rebirth of nationalism and the role of the globalization in these matters. …
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Essays on macroeconomic performance under alternative exchange rate regimes
… the economy against real shocks. I use a post-Bretton Woods sample (1973-1996) of 74 developing countries to assess whether the response of real GDP, real exchange rates and prices to terms of trade shocks differ systematically across exchange rate regimes. I find that real GDP and the real …
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On macroeconomic policy, effective demand and unemployment : the European experience
… environment that emerged after the demise of Bretton Woods and most crucially after the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty. Further, it develops an alternative demand-based macroeconomic framework on the basis of which the undertaken econometric analysis provides evidence in support of our …
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Has growth in the money supply since 1971 led to increased inequality?
… changes occurred to the global macroeconomy. The Bretton Woods exchange rate system was discarded, bringing in a period of increased inflation and structurally higher monetary and credit growth, and the decades long trend of reduced income inequality in developed economies was reversed. This …
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The determinants of the exchange rate volatility: A case study for South Africa
The dissolution of the Bretton Woods system in 1973 prompted numerous countries to shift from fixed to flexible exchange rate regimes, resulting in increased exchange rate volatility. In line with this global trend, South Africa adopted a free-floating exchange rate system in the mid-1990s and …
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Nonlinear and Asymmetric Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Consumer Prices in South Africa
After the breakdown of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system, some economies, including South Africa, abandoned fixed exchange rate regimes in favour of floating exchange rate systems. When a country adopts a floating exchange rate and an open trade policy, it loses the ability to shield its …
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