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Title: Crises and Punishment: Moral Hazard and the Pre-1914 International Financial Architecture

Author(s): Marc Flandreau

Publication Date: February 2003

Keyword(s): financial architecture, financial crises, moral hazard, relationship banking and self insurance

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: This Paper argues that the backbone of the pre-1914 international financial architecture was the concern about moral hazard. No decentralized system can leave without safeguards against free riding and this typically means that problem countries must find by themselves the means to fix their domestic problems. We review the origins of crises as well as the remedies that were commonly applied one century ago and find that the international financial world was fairly similar to the setting in which we live today, and this for the same reasons. Today, just like one century ago, in the absence of an international lender of last resort with huge regulatory powers, countries must muddle through, with the occasional - and imperfect - help of international finance.

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Flandreau, M. 2003. 'Crises and Punishment: Moral Hazard and the Pre-1914 International Financial Architecture'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=3742