Showing 1 - 10 of 10,228
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937515
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464398
Although capital is now generally free to move across national borders, there is strong evidence that savings tend to remain and to be invested in the country where the saving takes place. The current paper examines the apparent conflict between the potential mobility of capital and the observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474060
the U.S. would experience a sudden stop of capital flows, which would unavoidably drag the world economy into a deep … instead that the root imbalance was of a different kind: The entire world had an insatiable demand for safe debt instruments … of exposing the economy to a systemic panic. This structural problem can be alleviated if governments around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463014
Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First, more than half of the rise in net borrowing of the U.S. nonfinancial sectors since the mid 1980s has been financed by foreign lending. Second, the collapse of the U.S. housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463217
The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels with a variety of apparently conflicting results. We attempt to provide a unified conceptual framework for organizing this vast and growing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466181
Over the last 20 years, some financial events, such as devaluations or defaults, have triggered an immediate adverse chain reaction in other countries -- which we call fast and furious contagion. Yet, on other occasions, similar events have failed to trigger any immediate international reaction....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468633
to providing new insights on contagion during crisis periods, we document patterns through time in world and regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469193
explosive mix of lack of policy credibility and world capital market imperfections that afflict emerging economies with national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469764
We examine the evidence of contagion during the pre World War I era and the interwar and contrast our findings with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470837