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Effects of Financial Globalization on Developing Countries; Some Empirical Evidence

Kose, M. Ayhan; Rogoff, Kenneth; Prasad, Eswar; Wei, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

in affecting developing countriesâ€™ experiences with financial globalization. …

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Riding Global Financial Waves; The Economic Impact of Global Financial Shocks on Emerging Market Economies

Adler, Gustavo; Mora, Camilo Ernesto Tovar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

integration with the rest of the world, arguably turning these economies more vulnerable to global financial shocks; and an …

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Developing Essential Financial Markets in Smaller Economies; Stylized Facts and Policy Options

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008

This paper surveys the foreign exchange markets, money and secondary government security markets, and stock exchanges in 107 smaller economy countries. The underdevelopment of these markets impedes risk transfer, monetary policy, corporate financing, and the capacity to absorb capital inflows....

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Retarding Short-Term Capital Inflows Through withholding Tax

Zee, Howell H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper proposes a price-based measure to mitigate the destabilizing impact of the volatility of global capital movements on the domestic economy of a country pursuing sound economic policies. The measure is a withholding tax on all private capital inflows, with a credit and refund provision...

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Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Volatility

Terrones, Marco; Prasad, Eswar; Kose, M. Ayhan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper examines the impact of international financial integration on macroeconomic volatility in a large group of industrial and developing economies over the period 1960-99. We report two major results: First, while the volatility of output growth has, on average, declined in the 1990s...

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How Does Globalization Affect the Synchronization of Business Cycles?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar; Terrones, Marco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

wisdom that globalization has increased the degree of synchronization of business cycles. The evidence that trade and …

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Modern Banking and OTC Derivatives Markets; The Transformation of Global Finance and its Implications for Systemic Risk

Drees, Burkhard; Schinasi, Garry J.; Kramer, Charles … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

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Trade, Finance, Specialization, and Synchronization

Imbs, Jean - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

The paper investigates the determinants of business cycles synchronization across regions. It uses both international and intranational data to evaluate the linkages between trade in goods, trade in financial assets, specialization and business cycles synchronization using a system of...

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Globalization Facts and Figures

Masson, Paul R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

Globalization has become the focus for a wide range of protests against various features of the world economy. This … paper aims to give a concise summary of the economic dimensions of globalization, while leaving to one side other aspects …—such as cultural, environmental, or political ones—that are beyond the scope of the IMF. Periods of increased globalization …

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Benchmarking Structural Transformation Across the World

Dabla-Norris, Era; Thomas, Alun H.; Garcia-Verdu, Rodrigo; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper documents stylized facts on the process of structural transformation around the world and empirically …

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