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enjoy a greater substitutability between types of inflows, and complementarity between gross inflows and outflows, than do … emerging markets, which reduces the volatility of their total net inflows despite higher volatility of the components. Capital … flows also exhibit low persistence, across all economies and across most types of flows. Inflows tend to rise temporarily …
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volatility and (the lack of) persistence implies that when one excludes volatile items relevant information is likely to be … volatility and persistence. The evidence shows that such measures far outperform those based on either volatility or persistence … show high persistence, and one certainly does not want to disregard persistent price changes. The non-equivalence between …
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In emerging economies periods of rapid growth and large capital inflows can be followed by sudden stops and financial crises. I show that, in the presence of financial markets imperfections, a simple modification of a neoclassical growth model can account for these facts. I study a growth model...
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volatility. And for the global community, enhanced global cooperation, including a strong global financial safety net, offers … emerging markets effective protection against excessive volatility. …
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We use a cross-country panel framework to analyze the effect of net official flows (chiefly foreign exchange intervention) on current accounts. We find that net official flows have a large but plausible effect on current account balances. The estimated effects are larger with instrumental...
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With the global economy beginning to emerge from the financial crisis, capital is flowing back to emerging market countries (EMEs). These flows, and capital mobility more generally, allow countries with limited savings to attract financing for productive investment projects, foster the...
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the welfare gains from financial integration for developing and emerging market economies. To do so, we build a stochastic endogenous growth model for a small open economy that can (i) borrow from the rest of the world, (ii) invest in foreign assets, and...
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This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix provides an estimate of the long-term path of Romania’s real exchange rate. The paper describes the recent history of the real exchange rate and its main determinants. A model is developed of a time-varying long-term exchange rate path,...
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Do reductions in capital income taxes attract foreign capital and, at the same time, foster economic growth? This paper examines the effect of capital income taxation on the international allocation of capital and on economic growth in a two-country overlapping generations model with endogenous...
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We analyze the capital controls imposed in Malaysia in September 1998. In macroeconomic terms, these controls neither yielded major benefits nor were costly. At the same time, the stock market interpreted the capital controls (and associated events) as favoring firms with stronger political...
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