This paper analyzes the recent growth of government domestic debt, including central bank debt, using a new data base on government domestic debt in developing countries with large, open financial systems. On average, government domestic debt grew much faster than GDP between 1994 and 2004 and...

Whether and when does banking serve to stabilize the economy? Caprio and Honohan view the banking system as a filter through which foreign and domestic shocks feed through to the domestic economy. The filter can dampen or amplify the shocks through various credit market channels, including...

One—Introduction -- 1. Classicists and Critics -- 2. Neoclassical Trade Models -- 3. Recent Work on Economic Growth -- Two—The Single Country Model -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Neoclassical Production -- 3. Demand -- 4. Short-Run Equilibrium -- 5. Long-Run Equilibrium -- 6. Comparative Dynamics...

A traditionally conservative country in financial matters, India enacted a series of reforms in response to its balance of payments crisis in the early 1990s. But since then only halting progress has been made, raising concerns about India’s rising fiscal deficit, inefficiencies in its...