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The Potential Impact of Decentralized Virtual Currency on Monetary Policy
Electronic money is a broad term for any money, currency or asset not held in physical form?it can include representations of a sovereign currency or claims on a realworld good.
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The Federal Reserve’s Role in the Global Economy: A Historical Perspective
he Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas sponsored the Bank?s centennial conference analyzing the evolution of the U.S. central bank, from its beginnings 100 years ago to its future influencing global monetary policy. The gathering, held Sept. 18?19 at the Dallas Fed, included the inaugural Robert V. Roosa Memorial Lecture, a conversation with former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker. The conference was organized by Dallas Fed Vice President and Globalization Institute Director Mark A. Wynne and institute senior fellow Michael D. Bordo, a ...
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Oil-Rich Venezuela Tips Toward Hyperinflation
Venezuela, once the wealthiest nation in Latin America, is suffering a dramatic reversal of fortunes and the worst economic crisis in its history. Though the nation has crude oil reserves of close to 300 billion barrels?the world?s largest such holdings?many Venezuelans go without the most basic goods in an economy plagued by chronic shortages.
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Five Years of Research on Globalization and Monetary Policy: What Have We Learned?
ive years ago the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas created the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute to promote research that would help us better understand the implications of globalization for the conduct of monetary policy in the United States. We are now half a decade into this research program, and the institute?s 2012 annual report is a fitting place to assess what has been accomplished over the past five years.
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Interactions Between Exchange Rates and Import Prices: What Have We Learned?
Globalization has deepened economic interdependence among countries as firms seek to take advantage of international trade to source production where it is cheapest, and investors look to global financial markets to diversify their portfolios. One need only look at the global financial crisis of 2007?08 and the associated global recession to grasp the extent of globalization.
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Measuring the External Value of the Dollar
How much is a dollar worth? The value of a dollar is most generally defined in terms of its purchasing power over the goods and services that households and individuals consume on a regular basis. As goods and services become more expensive, the purchasing power?or value?of the dollar falls. Over long periods of time, the tendency has been for most goods and services to become more expensive in dollar terms. The result is that the purchasing power of a dollar in 2014 is a lot less than the purchasing power of a dollar in 1914.
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Spillovers of Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy: The Role of Real and Financial Linkages
Central banks around the world launched extraordinary monetary policy responses to the global financial crisis of 2007?09 and the European debt crises that began in 2010. Some were coordinated; all were directed at fulfilling domestic mandates for price and financial stability and supporting real economic activity.
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The Conquest of Mexican Inflation
From the 1970s through the mid-1990s, Mexico lurched from one crisis to another, its monetary and fiscal framework a source of instability that impeded long-term growth. By adopting best practices in central banking in the latter 1990s?granting the Banco de Mxico independence and mandating price stability as the central bank?s primary goal?Mexico began installing a framework that has proven remarkably successful.
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Conference on International Economics
Globalization has led to increased integration across countries in goods markets and financial markets and has changed the environment in which policy operates. As a result, researchers in the various subfields have developed new methods to study and measure the consequences of globalization. To better understand these developments, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas? Globalization Institute and the University of Houston brought together researchers from academic institutions and the Federal Reserve System for a conference focusing on international trade and prices and on international ...
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Globalization: The Elephant in the Room That Is No More
Unlike what has been conventionally argued, the forces of globalization appear to be?if anything?a headwind to the conduct of monetary policy for the purpose of macroeconomic stabilization.