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Standard theoretical arguments tell us that countries with relatively little capital benefit from financial integration as foreign capital flows in and speeds up the process of income convergence. We show in a calibrated neoclassical model that conventionally measured welfare gains from this...
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This 2009 Article IV Consultation focuses on euro area policies. The euro area remains in recession, with signs of improvement yet to evolve into a recovery. The large drop in financial wealth, an associated increase in private savings, tight financing conditions, and the adjustment of global...
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economic growth, in practice its effects are less clear-cut. This paper envisages a gradual and orderly sequencing of external …
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This paper studies the correlation between output growth and lagged stock returns in a panel of emerging market …, the paper finds that the strength of the correlation between output growth and lagged stock returns is significantly …
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The degree of an economy’s monetization, which has an important implication on economic growth, can be affected by …
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growth has, on average, declined in the 1990s relative to the three preceding decades, we also document that, on average, the … volatility of consumption growth relative to that of income growth has increased for more financially integrated developing … economies in the 1990s. Second, increasing financial openness is associated with rising relative volatility of consumption, but …
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The paper provides a general-equilibrium model where incomplete international financial markets lead to insufficient industrial specialization and low international trade. As international portfolio diversification is limited and productivity is uncertain, investors wish to maintain a...
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This note documents and assesses the role of small financial centers in the international financial system using a newly-assembled dataset. It presents estimates of the foreign asset and liability positions for a number of the most important small financial centers, and places these into context...
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This paper assesses financial integration in Asia in terms of risk-sharing benefit versus financial-contagion cost. We construct a new measure of risk sharing based on a term structure model, which allows identification of realized stochastic discount factors. Risk sharing is low in Asia, and...
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The ongoing global financial crisis is rooted in a combination of factors common to previous financial crises and some new factors. The crisis has brought to light a number of deficiencies in financial regulation and architecture, particularly in the treatment of systemically important financial...
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