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“The Dissolution of a Monetary Union”: new article published by Prof. Catherine Schenk

admin — Mon, 06 May 2013 08:10:36 +0000

Catherine Schenk publishes “The Dissolution of a Monetary Union: the Case of Malaysia and Singapore 1963-1974″ in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Abstract The abrupt separation of Singapore and Malaysia in 1965 set these two states on separate political trajectories, but the economic ties proved more difficult to untangle. This article explores …

Professor Catherine Schenk appointed Associate Fellow at Chatham House

admin — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:51:33 +0000

Professor Catherine Schenk has been appointed Associate Fellow at Chatham House International Economic Relations Department. More information about the Department can be found here.

Call for Papers, Conference “The Challenges of International Banking Regulation and Supervision after 1945,” 16-17 January 2014

admin — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:04:22 +0000

Jointly organised by the European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) e.V. www.eabh.info and the ERSC-funded project ‘The Development of International Financial Regulation and Supervision (1961-1982)’, University of Glasgow www.bank-reg.co.uk 16-17 January 2014 - Frankfurt am Main, Germany Financial regulation and supervision has gained prominence in the public debate over the past few years. The …

PhD Student Graduates from M.Sc. Global Economy

admin — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:26:52 +0000

On 28 November 2012, PhD student, Gillian Gallardo, graduated from the University of Glasgow with a M.Sc. in Global Economy as part of the ESRC 1+3. The studentship is tied to the ESRC project ‘The Development of International Financial Regulation and Supervision 1961-1982’. Gillian’s M.Sc. dissertation used previously unexplored IMF archival documents to investigate IMF and …

Financing Globalisation: Lessons from Economic History

admin — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:52:48 +0000

On 19 June 2012, Catherine Schenk took part in the workshop “Financing Globalisation: Lessons from Economic History” organised by the Global Governance Economic Programme at University College, Oxford, with the Blavatnik School of Government. She presented a paper that can be downloaded here.

Publication of Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol’s book: A Europe Made of Money

admin — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:58:00 +0000

A Europe Made of Money is a new history of the making of the European Monetary System (EMS), based on extensive archive research. Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol highlights two long-term processes in the monetary and economic negotiations in the decade leading up to the founding of the EMS in 1979. The first is a transnational learning process involving …

How Have Multiple Reserve Currencies Functioned in the Past?

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:39:46 +0000

In the 1950s the sterling area (35 countries and colonies pegged to sterling and holding primarily sterling reserves) accounted for half of world trade and sterling accounted for over half of world foreign exchange reserves. In the early post-war years, this share was even higher – the IMF estimated that official sterling reserves, excluding those …

Gold as a Money Anchor: we have been here before

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:54:52 +0000

Gold has come and gone as an administrative anchor to the global monetary system. Gold’s appeal tends to rise when the viability of “fiat money” (that is, money that is used as a medium of exchange for goods and services but is not backed by a specific commodity) is in question, inflation expectations run high, …

80th Anniversary of the End of the Gold Standard

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:52:53 +0000

The 1930s Chatham House Study Group on ‘The International Gold Problem’ and the 2011 Chatham House Taskforce on ‘Gold and the International Monetary System’ The economic context of the 1930s Chatham House Study Group was in many ways very different from the modern-day Chatham House Taskforce, of which I am a member, but the focus …

The regulation of international financial markets from the 1950s to the 1990s

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:38:06 +0000

After 1945, the regulation of international financial markets became more intense and widespread as part of the system designed to avoid the chaos that had characterised international economic relations in the 1930s. This paper examines how the post-war consensus about the usefulness of regulating capital flows evolved after the advent of current account convertibility in …