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Asset Based Reserve Requirements: Reasserting Domestic Monetary Control in an Era of Financial Innovation and Instability (EN)
PALLEY, Thomas I. - AFL-CIO, Technical Working Paper No. T026.
2001

Bank for International Settlements - 2004 Survey (EN - 288 KB PDF)
- Bank for International Settlements
2005

In traditional foreign exchange markets, average daily turnover in April 2004 was $1.9 trillion, a 57% increase at current exchange rates and a 36% rise at constant exchange rates compared to April 2001. This more than reversed the fall in global trading volumes between 1998 and 2001.

Bank Runs and Optimal Public Suspension of Payment: The Case for Temporary Use of Capital Controls
PALLEY, Thomas I. - AFL-CIO, Technical Working Paper No. T028.
1999

Challenging Open Markets: The Third Wave involves making markets work for all (EN)
PALLEY, Thomas I. - AFL-CIO, Technical Working Paper No. T009.
1998

East Asian Economic Crisis: The Three Lessons (EN)
BRETON, Jean R - Journal of World Affairs & New Technology. Volume 1, Number 1 Quarterly – April.
1999

Industrialized Country Financial Markets: The Missing Dimension in the Stabilizing Global Finance Debate
PALLEY, Thomas I. - AFL-CIO, Economic Policy Paper No. E040. November.
1999

International Finance and Global Deflation: There is an Alternative (EN)
PALLEY, Thomas I. - AFL-CIO, Economic Policy Paper No. E018.
1999

International Finance and the Problem of Capital Account Governance: A Blue Print for Reform (EN)
PALLEY, Thomas I. - AFL-CIO, Economic Policy Paper No. E017. December.
1998

Repairing the Global Financial Architecture: Painting over Cracks vs. Strengthening the Foundations (EN)
FELIX David. - Foreign Policy in Focus. September.
1999

Special Policy Brief 15: New Data on Global Derivatives Trading - April 2004 (EN)
Randall Dodd - Financial Policy Forum
2004

Despite a decline in the fourth quarter, worldwide trading volume in futures and options on derivatives exchanges rose sharply in 2003 to $874 trillion – by comparison the US gross domestic product was $11 trillion for 2003. Measured by notional value, turnover in futures contracts rose 24.6%, that for options rose 30.2% and the combined figure for futures and options showed an annual increase in trading volume of 26.2%.

The ABC's of Exchange Rates and the Case Against Currency Boards (EN)
PALLEY, Thomas I. - AFL-CIO, Economic Policy Paper No. E037. September.
1999

The Economics of Globalization: Problems and Policy Responses (EN)
PALLEY, Thomas I. - American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Technical Working Paper No. T023.
2001

Toward a New International Economic Order: Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Mainstreet Alternative (EN)
PALLEY, Thomas I. - AFL-CIO, Economic Policy Paper No. E027. September.
1999

Why a Global Currency Union with Fixed Exchange Rates Won't Work (EN)
PALLEY, Thomas I. - AFL-CIO, Economic Policy Paper No. E023. November.
1998

Why has FX trading surged? Explaining the BIS 2004 triennial survey (EN - 51 KB PDF)
Gabriele Galati and Michael Melvin - Bank for International Settlements
2005

The 2004 BIS survey shows a surge in traditional foreign exchange trading. This seems to have been driven by momentum trading and carry trades in a global search for yield on the part of institutional investors and leveraged players as well as by hedging activity.

     
     
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