This paper argues that Central Europe should draw the lessons from the Asian and Mexican crises: hard money and sound credit are essential in a world where capital is intensely mobile, contagion pervasive and the economic and social costs of crises nothing short of formidable. We argue that...

Die vorliegende kurze Studie zielt darauf ab, die Erfahrungen Japans, Westeuropas und Nordamerikas mit flexiblen Wechselkursen darzustellen und zu untersuchen, wie effizient das System flexibler Kurse im Hinblick auf die wirtschaftspolitischen Ziele gewesen ist. Der Aufbau dieser Studie ist wie...

London's preeminence as a foreign exchange trading center is of recent vintage. Before World War I, there was little demand for foreign currencies by British banks, firms and investors, which conducted the majority of their cross-border transactions in sterling. Foreign currency transactions...

Scholars and politicians have expressed concern that immigrants from countries with low levels of political trust transfer those attitudes to their destination countries. Using large-scale survey data covering 38 countries and exploiting origin-country variation across different cohorts and...

In these highly uncertain times, flexibility has value.