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The "Other" Imbalance and the Financial Crisis
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010
the U.S. would experience a sudden stop of capital flows, which would unavoidably drag the world economy into a deep … of exposing the economy to a systemic panic. This structural problem can be alleviated if governments around the world … instead that the root imbalance was of a different kind: The entire world had an insatiable demand for safe debt instruments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463014
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Financial Globalization, Financial Crises and Contagion
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2009
financial institutions and asset markets. Using an open-economy model where financial intermediaries play a central role, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463217
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Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2009
behind this crisis is the large demand for riskless assets from the rest of the world. In this paper we present a model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463959
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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2008
Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464090
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Global Business Cycles : Convergence or Decoupling?
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2008
This paper analyzes the evolution of the degree of global cyclical interdependence over the period 1960-2005. We categorize the 106 countries in our sample into three groups -- industrial countries, emerging markets, and other developing economies. Using a dynamic factor model, we then decompose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464278
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Financial Integration, Financial Deepness and Global Imbalances
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2007
Large and persistent global financial imbalances need not be the harbinger of a world financial crash. Instead, we show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465747
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Determinants of Deposit-Insurance Adoption and Design
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli - 2007
This paper identifies factors that influence decisions about a country's financial safety net, using a comprehensive dataset covering 180 countries during the 1960-2003 period. Our analysis focuses on how private interest-group pressures, outside influences, and political-institutional factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465794
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Financial Globalization : A Reappraisal
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2006
The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels with a variety of apparently conflicting results. We attempt to provide a unified conceptual framework for organizing this vast and growing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466181
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Inflation Targeting and Sudden Stops
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2003
Emerging economies experience sudden stops in capital inflows. As we have argued in Caballero and Krishnamurthy (2002), having access to monetary policy during these sudden stops is useful, but mostly for insurance' rather than for aggregate demand reasons. In this environment, a central bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469099
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How Country and Safety-Net Characteristics Affect Bank Risk-Shifting
Hovakimian, Armen - 2002
insurance has had adverse effects in environments that are low in political and economic freedom and high in corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469384