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The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created the infrastructure for the modern American payments system. Probing the origins of this benchmark legislation, J. Lawrence Broz finds that international factors were crucial to its conception and passage. Until its passage, the United States had suffered under one of the most inefficient payment systems in the world. Serious banking panics erupted frequently, and nominal interest rates fluctuated wildly.
Structural and regulatory flaws contributed not only to financial instability at home but also to the virtual absence of the dollar in world trade and payments.
Key institutional features of the Federal Reserve Act addressed both these shortcomings, but it was the goal of internationalizing usage of the dollar that motivated social actors to pressure Congress for the improvements.
With New York bankers in the forefront, an international coalition lobbied for a system that would reduce internal problems such as recurring panics, and simultaneously allow New York to challenge London's preeminence as the global banking center and encourage bankers to make the dollar a worldwide currency of record. To those who organized the political effort to pass the Act, Broz contends, the creation of the Federal Reserve System was first and foremost a response to international opportunities.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), Federal Reserve banks, History, International finance, Monetary policy, Monetary policy, united states, Histoire, Geschichte, Notenbankpolitik, Vorgeschichte, Währungspolitik, Système monétaire international, Banques de la Réserve fédérale, Politique monétaire, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, USA. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, USA, Federal Reserve System (Etats-Unis), USA / Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemPlaces
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International Origins of the Federal Reserve System
2018, Cornell University Press
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International Origins of the Federal Reserve System
2009, Cornell University Press
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0801475953 9780801475955
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The international origins of the Federal Reserve System
1997, Cornell University Press
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0801433320 9780801433320
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