A monetary history of the Euro Area
What would Friedman and Schwartz have made of the euro area crisis? The challenges that Europe faced over the past decade—as well as challenges yet to come—can best be understood and visualised through a monetary-balance of payments framework. Sadly, such thinking has atrophied alongside macroeconomics more generally in recent years. This presentation does four things: First, recalls the evolution of monetary thinking at the IMF during the formative years of the institution (the Polak model) and laments its demise following the Asia Crisis. Second, decomposes the Baltic Crises in monetary terms, as a trial run for what was yet to come in Greater Europe. Third, recalls the euro area crisis as a monetary-bop phenomenon in the spirit of Friedman and Schwartz. Finally, reflects on the implications for the future of the euro area—what institutional changes are needed for reasonable future functioning of the currency block?
Date:
5 February 2018, 17:00
Venue:
St Antony's College - North Site
Venue Details:
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Speaker:
Christopher Marsh (Former IMF)
Organising department:
European Studies Centre
Organiser:
Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Charles Enoch (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Part of:
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Julie Adams
