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Bretton Woods 1.0: A Constructive Retrieval For Sustainable Finance, Robert C. Hockett Jan 2013

Bretton Woods 1.0: A Constructive Retrieval For Sustainable Finance, Robert C. Hockett

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Global trade imbalance and domestic financial fragility are intimately related. When a nation runs persistently massive current account deficits to maintain global liquidity as has the United States now for decades, its central bank effectively relinquishes exchange rate flexibility to become a de facto central bank to the world. That in turn prevents the bank from playing its essential credit-modulatory role at home, at least absent strict capital controls that are difficult to administer and have long been taboo. And this can in turn render credit-fueled asset price bubbles and busts all but impossible to prevent, irrespective of the nation's …


International Debt Forgiveness And Global Poverty Reduction, Chantal Thomas Jun 2000

International Debt Forgiveness And Global Poverty Reduction, Chantal Thomas

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Does The "Good Governance Policy" Of The International Financial Institutions Privilege Markets At The Expense Of Democracy?, Chantal Thomas Oct 1999

Does The "Good Governance Policy" Of The International Financial Institutions Privilege Markets At The Expense Of Democracy?, Chantal Thomas

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.