NDLI: Tales from the Bretton Woods

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Author	Bordo, Michael D.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	An analogy has been made between the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 and the recent Eurozone crisis. The build up of TARGET balances in the Eurosystem of Central Banks after 2007 with the GIPS (deficit countries having large liabilities) and Germany (a surplus country) with large claims is seen as similar to the rising and persistent balance of payments deficits and declining gold reserves by the United States as center country of the BWS gold dollar standard in the 1960s. This paper argues that a better Bretton Woods analogy is between the UK which ran persistent balance of payments deficits reflecting low productivity growth and overly expansionary financial policies (an analogy to the GIPS) countries with West Germany which ran persistent balance of payments surpluses reflecting high productivity and conservative financial policies (analogous to Germany today). However Bretton Woods is very different from the Eurozone in many dimensions. An even better analogy than BWS is a comparison of the clearing mechanism in the U.S..--The Gold Settlement account—with the Target payments mechanism for the Eurozone. In the early 1930s massive gold flows from the interior, hard hit by banking panics, to New York City were similar to the payments imbalances within the Eurozone in the recent crisis. The Federal Reserve did little to accommodate the demands for liquidity leading to a collapse of the payments system in March 1933. By contrast the build up of TARGET reflected full accommodation of the liquidity demands of the member states. TARGET represented an institutional innovation that prevented a repeat of the 1930s payments crisis.
Starting Page	981
Ending Page	991
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09237992
Journal	Open Economies Review
Volume Number	25
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	1573708X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-07-26
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Bretton Woods TARGET balances Payments system Liquidity demands International Economics Development Economics European Integration Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics Economic Policy Financial Economics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics and Econometrics

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