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International Reserves Crises, Monetary Integration and the Payments System during the International Gold Standard

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  • Paula Hernandez-Verme

    (Department of Economics and Finance, Universidad de Guanajuato)

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I model an international payments system with a financial center and periphery to reproduce various aspects of the International Gold Standard. This period was characterized by frequent crises associated with scarce stocks of reserves, high short-term interest rates with subsequent gold inflows and transmission of output contractions across countries. I find that a common international currency and no legal restrictions on exchange help the periphery share reserves with the financial center, improving the world’s welfare and mitigating output losses due to reserve crises. Also, the center has incentives for restrictive rediscounting while the periphery has motives for developing central banking.

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  • Paula Hernandez-Verme, 2009. "International Reserves Crises, Monetary Integration and the Payments System during the International Gold Standard," Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers EC200904, Universidad de Guanajuato, Department of Economics and Finance.
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    Keywords

    International Gold Standard; International payments systems; International reserve crises; Monetary integration;
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    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions

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