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Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First …
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The ebb and flow of international capital since the nineteenth century illustrates recurring difficulties, as well as the alternative perspectives from which policymakers have tried to confront them. This paper is devoted to documenting these vicissitudes quantitatively and explaining them....
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Large and persistent global financial imbalances need not be the harbinger of a world financial crash. Instead, we show … globalization on financial development, liberalization leads to sizable welfare gains for the more financially-developed countries …
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How does financial integration impact capital accumulation, current-account dynamics, and cross-country inequality? We investigate this question within a two-country, general-equilibrium, incomplete-markets model that focuses on the importance of idiosyncratic entrepreneurial risk-- a risk that...
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' trading and participation decisions. Our model predicts that regulation that protect prices will lead to fragmentation and …
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This paper offers a framework for regulating internalities. Using a simple economic model, we provide four principles for designing and evaluating behaviorally-motivated policy. We then outline rules for determining which contexts reliably reflect true preferences and discuss empirical...
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inescapable in the real world of asymmetric information and imperfect contract enforcement. I argue, however, that in confronting …
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globalization, international tax competition, and the fading generosity of the welfare state. Financial globalization triggers a … key mechanism which links financial globalization to redistribution policy, this paper develops a stripped-down model …, where easing the country access to the world capital markets induces political-economy based policy changes that impact …
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The crises in Mexico, Thailand, and Russia in the 1990s spread quite rapidly to countries as far apart as South Africa and Pakistan. In the aftermath of these crises, many emerging economies lost access to international capital markets. Using data on international primary issuance, this paper...
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The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent … perspective on the macroeconomic effects of financial globalization, both in terms of growth and volatility. Overall, our critical … benefit from financial globalization, but with many nuances. On the other hand, there is little systematic evidence to support …
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