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List of Books Published

Title and co-Author(s)	Publisher	Date of Publication
Globalization in Historical Perspective (with Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson)	University of Chicago Press for the NBER, Chicago	2003
Demand for Money. An Analysis of The Long-Run Behavior of the Velocity of Circulation (with Lars Jonung)	A reprint of Michael D. Bordo and Lars Jonung, The Long-Run Behaviour of Velocity. The International Evidence, Cambridge University Press, 1987	2003
Transferring Wealth & Power from the Old to the New World Monetary and Fiscal Instituitions in the 17th through the 19th Centuries (with Roberto Cortes-Conde)	Cambridge University Press, Cambridge	2001
Lessons for EMU from the Histroy of Monetary Unions	The Institute of Economic Affairs	2000
The Gold Standard and Related Regimes: Collected Essays	Cambridge University Press	1999
The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the  American Economy in the Twentieth Century (with Claudia Goldin and Eugene White)	University of Chicago Press for the NBER, Chicago	1998
Anglo-American Financial Systems:  Institutions and Markets in the Twentieth Century (with Richard Sylla)	Irwin Professional Publishers, New York	1995
Financial Institutions and Markets in 20th Century Europe and North America.  Proceedings of the Eleventh International Economic History Congress, North America (with Gerald Feldman, Ulf Olssen and Youssef Cassis)	Bocconi University, Milan, Italy	1994
Monetary Regimes in Transition (with Forrest Capie)	Cambridge University Press, Cambridge	1993
A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System (with B. Eichengreen)	University of Chicago Press for the NBER, Chicago	1993
Financial Crises in International Library of Macroeconomic and Financial History	Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, London	1992
Money, History and International Finance:  Essays in Honor of Anna J. Schwartz	University of Chicago Press for the NBER, Chicago	1989
The Long-Run Behavior of the Velocity of Circulation:  The International Evidence (with Lars Jonung)	Cambridge University Press, New York	1987
A Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard, 1821-1931 (with Anna J. Schwartz)	University of Chicago Press for the NBER, Chicago	1984

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Title	Working Paper Type/Conference	Date of Publication	Format
The Role of Foreign Currency Debt in Financial Crises: 1880-1913 vs. 1972-1997 (with Christopher Meissner)	NBER Working Paper No. 11897 December 2005	2005	Pdf (1591k)
U.S. Housing Boom-Busts in Historical Perspective	Paper Prepared for the Conference on Housing Bubbles Networks Financial Institute Indiana State University Indianapolis, October 12, 2005	2005	Doc (602k)
Review of A History of the Federal Reserve. Volume 1 (2003) (with Allan H. Meltzer)	NBER Working Paper No. 11714 October 2005	2005	Pdf (213k)
Seventy Years of Central Banking: The Bank of Canada in International Context, 1935-2005	NBER Working Paper No. 11586 August 2005	2005	Pdf (140k)
Historical Perspective on Global Imbalances	NBER Working Paper No11383 May 2005	2005	pdf(186k)
Financial Crises, 1880-1913: The Role of Foreign Currency Debt  (with Christopher Meissner)	NBER Working Paper No11173, March 2005	2005	pdf(1656k)
Keeping Capital Flowing: The Role of the IMF (with Ashoka Mody and Nienke Oomes)	NBER Working Paper No10834, October 2004	2004	pdf(213k)
Deflation and Monetary Policy in a Historical Perspective: Remembering the Past or Being Condemned to Repeat It? (with Andrew Filardo)	NBER Working Paper No10833, October 2004	2004	pdf(657k)
Monetary Policy and Asset Prices: A Look Back at Past U.S. Stock Market Booms (with David C. Wheelock)	NBER Working Paper No10704, August 2004	2004	pdf(474k)
The Yield Curve, Recessions and the Credibility of the Monetary Regime: Long Run Evidence 1875-1997 (with Joseph G Haubrich)	NBER Working Paper No10431, April 2004	2004	pdf(884k)
Good versus Bad Deflation: Lessons from the Gold Standard Era (with John Landon-Lane and Angela Redish)	NBER Working Paper No10329, Feb 2004	2004	pdf(416k)
Introduction:  Demand for Money: An Analysis of  the Long-Run Behavior of the Velocity of Circulation (with Lars Jounug)	Introduction to the Reprint of Demand for Money: An Analysis of  the Long-Run Behavior of the Velocity of Circulation	2003	pdf (383k)
Gold, Fiat Money, and Price Stability (with Robert D. Dittmar and William Gavin)	NBER Working Paper No. 10171, December 2003	2003	pdf(578k)
Have National Business Cycles Become More Synchronized? (with Thomas Helbling)	NBER Working Paper No. 10130, December 2003	2003	pdf(199k)
Does the Euro have a Future?	Paper Prepared for the Cato Institute 21st Annual Monetary Conference: The Future of the Euro, Washington D.C. November 2003.	2003	doc(57k)
The Yield Curve, Recessions and the Credibility of the Monetary Regime: Long-Run Evidence 1875-1997 (with Joseph G. Haubrich)		2003	pdf(579k)
IS-LM and Monetarism(with Anna J. Schwartz)	Prepared for the 2003 HOPE Conference on “The IS/LM Model: Its Rise, Fall, and Strange Persistence” at Duke University, April 25-27, 2003.	2003	pdf(61k)
Exchange Rate Regime Choice in Historical Perspective	Paper prepared for the Henry Thornton Lecture at the Cass Business School, March 2003.	2003	doc(250k)
Is deflation depressing? Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard (with Angela Redish)	NBER Working Paper No 9520, March 2003.	2003	pdf(192k)
Stock Market Crashes, Productivity Boom Busts and Recessions:Some Historical Evidence.	Background paper prepared for the chapter on Asset Price Busts for World Economic Outlook, April 2003	2003	doc(186k)
Monetary Standards	Essay written for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, October 2002	2002	doc(63k)
Boom-Busts in Asset Prices, Economic Instability, and Monetary Policy	NBER Working Paper No 8966, May 2002	2002	pdf (732k)
Monetary Policy and Asset Prices: Does "Benign Neglect" Make Sense? (with Olivier Jeanne)	Preliminary Draft October 2002	2002	pdf (963k)
Globalization and Changing Patterns in the International Transmission of Shocks in Financial Markets (with Antu Panini Murshid)	NBER Working Paper No 9019, June 2002.	2002	pdf(715k)
Charles Goodhart's Contributions to the History of Monetary Institutions (with Anna J.Schwartz)	NBER Working Paper No 8717, January 2002	2002	pdf (202k)
Crises Now and Then: What Lessons from the Last Era of Financial Globalization (with Barry Eichengreen)	NBER Working Paper No 8716, January 2002	2002	pdf (399k)
A Return to the Convertibility Principle? Monetary and Fiscal  Regimes in Historical Perspective: The International Evidence (with Lars Jonung)	Chapter 8 in Axel Leijonhufvud, ed., Monetary Theory and Policy Experience, International Economic Association, Conference Volume No. 132, Palgrave 2001.	2001	pdf(2.8Mb)
Core, Periphery, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Globalization (with Marc Flandreau)	NBER Working Paper No 8584, November 2001	2001	pdf (505k)
Aggregate Price Shocks and Financial Stability: The United Kingdom 1796-1999 (with Michael J. Dueker and David C. Wheelock)	NBER Working Paper No 8583, November 2001	2001	pdf (437k)
Bond Market Inflation Expectations in Industrial Countries: Historical Comparisons (with William G. Dewald)	NBER Working Paper No 8582, November 2001	2001	pdf (419k)
The Adam Klug Memorial Lecture: Haberler versus Nurkse: The Case for Floating Exchange Rates as an Alternative to Bretton Woods? (with Harold James)	NBER Working Paper No 8545, October 2001	2001	pdf (213k)
Globalization in Historical Perspective	Prepared for the NBER session “International Economy: Globalization and Crises” at the National Association of Business Economists, 43rd Annual Meetings, New York City, September 11, 2001.	2001	pdf(282k)
The Inter-War Gold Exchange Standard: Credibility and Monetary Independence ( with Ronald MacDonald)	NBER Working Paper No 8429, August 2001	2001	pdf (496k)
From the Exchange Stabilization Fund to the International Monetary Fund (with Anna J. Schwartz)	NBER Working Paper No 8100, January 2001	2001	pdf (157k)
The International Monetary Fund: Its Present Role in Historical Perspective (with Harold James)	NBER Working Paper No 7724, June 2000	2000	pdf (1246K)
Measuring Real Economic Effects of Bailouts: Historical Perspectives on How Countries in Financial Distress Have Fared With and Without Bailouts ( with Anna J. Schwartz)	NBER Working Paper No 7701, May 2000	2000	pdf (273K)
Is the Crisis Problem growing More Severe? (with Barry Eichengreen, Daniela Klingbiel and Maria Soledad Martinez-Peria)	Mimeograph December 2000		(text) pdf (figures) zip
Aggregate Price Shocks and Financial Instability: An Historical Analysis (with Michael Dueker and David Wheelock)	NBER Working Paper No 7652, April 2000	2000	pdf (203k)
Are Financial Crises Becoming Increasingly More Contagious?  What is the Historical Evidence on Contagion? (with Antu Panini Murshid)	Prepared for a Conference Volume to be Edited by Constantijn Claessens and Kristin Forbes	2000	pdf (1.51 Mb)
Sound Money and Sound Financial Policy	Prepared for the conference “Anna Schwartz – The Policy Influence,” American Enterprise Institute.  Washington D.C. April 14, 2000	2000	pdf (not yet available)  doc (581 Kb)
An Historical Perspective on the East Asian Crisis	Prepared for the Conference “Tigers in Distress: the Political Economy of the East Asian Crisis.” Columbia University March 5, 2000	2000	doc (1.52 Mb)
The Globalization of International Financial Markets: What Can History Teach Us?	Prepared for the conference “International Financial Markets: The Challenge of Globalization,” March 31, 2000.  Texas A and M University, College Station Texas.	2000	pdf (4.37 Mb) ps (1.82 Mb)
The International Monetary Fund: Its Present Role in Historical Perspective (with Harold James)	NBER Working Paper  No. 7724, June 2000	2000	pdf
"The International Transmission of Financial Crises before World War II: Was There Contagion?" (with Antu Panini Murshid)	Prepared for UNU/WIDER conference on Financial Contagion. Helsinki. November 1999.	1999	full version pdf abridged version pdf
"Measuring Real Economic Effects of Bailouts:  Historical Perspectives on How Countries in Financial  Distress Have Fared With and Without Bailouts" (with Anna J. Schwartz)	NBER Working Paper  No. 7701,May 2000	2000	pdf
"Is Our Current International Economic Environmant Unusually Crisis Prone?" (with Barry Eichengreen)	Prepared for the Reserve Bank of Australia Conference on Private Capital.  Sydney.  August 1999.	1999	pdf text pdf figures accompanying the text
"Canada's Monetary System in Historical Perspective: Two Faces of the Exchange Rate Regime" (with A. Redish and R. Shearer)		1999	pdf
"A Return to the Convertibility Principle?  Monetary and Fiscal Regimes in Historical Perspective.  The International Evidence," (with Lars Jonung)	Forthcoming in Axel Leijonhufvud, ed., "Monetary Theory as a Basis for Monetary Policy", MacMillan.	1998	doc
"What if Alexander Hamilton Had Been Argentinean?  A Comparison of the Early Monetary Experiences of Argentina and the United States," (with Carlos A. Vegh)	NBER Working Paper No 6862, December 1998	1998	pdf (1.87 Mb) NBER website Also available from Carlos Vegh's webpage pdf (881 k)
"Was Stable Money Feasible During the Great Contraction?  An Examination of the Gold Standard Constraint," (with Ehsan U. Choudhri and Anna J. Schwartz)	NBER Working Paper No 7125, May 1999	1999	pdf
Under What Circumstances, Past and Present, Have International   Rescues of Countries in Financial Distress Been Mounted? (with Anna J. Schwartz)	NBER Working Paper No 6824 , December 1998	1998	pdf (1762k) doc
"Historical Evidence on Business Cycles: The international experience," (with Michael Bergman and Lars Jonung)	Prepared for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Annual Conference: "Beyond Shocks: What Causes Business Cycles?" Cape Cod, June 24-26, 1998	1998	pdf
"Was There Really an Earlier Period of International Financial," (with Barry Eichengreen, and Jongwoo Kim)	NBER Working Paper No 6738, September 1998	1998	pdf
"The Rise and Fall of a Barbarous Relic: The Role of Gold in the International Monetary System," (with Barry Eichengreen)	NBER Working Paper No 6436, March 1998	1998	pdf
"The Legacy of French and English Fiscal and Monetary Institutions for Canada," (with Angela Redish)  Figures are not yet available online.		1997	doc
"Monetary Policy Regimes and Economic Performance: The Historical Record," (with Anna J. Schwartz)	NBER Working Paper No 6201, September 1997	1997	pdf
"Violations of the `Rules of the Game' and the Credibility of the Classical Gold Standard, 1880-1914," (with Ronald MacDonald)	NBER Working Paper No 6115, June 1997	1997	pdf
"Money, Sticky Wages, and the Great Depression," (with Christopher J. Erceg and Charles N. Evans)	NBER Working Paper No 6071, June 1997	1997	pdf
"The Implications of the Great Depression for the Development of the International Monetary System," (with Barry Eichengreen)	NBER Working Paper No 5883, January1997	1997	pdf
"Why Clashes Between Internal and External Stability Goals End in Currency Crises, 1797-1994," (with Anna J. Schwartz)	NBER Working Paper No 5710, January1997	1997	pdf
"The Specie Standard as a Contingent Rule: Some Evidence for Core and Peripheral Countries, 1880-1990," (with Anna J. Schwartz)	NBER Working Paper No 4860, February1997	1997	pdf
"A Small Open Economy in Depression: Lessons from Canada in the 1930s," (with Caroline M. Betts and Angela Redish)	NBER Working Paper No 4515, December 1996	1996	pdf

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