Globalisation has contributed positively to the global economy in terms of economic growth and welfare. However, especially amid rising global interdependence, closer synchronisation of business and financial cycles and stronger linkages across monetary, macroprudential and fiscal policies, as...

Kamber et al (2020) investigate possible changes in the driving forces of inflation for a panel of 47 advanced and emerging market economies over a sample period from 1996 to 2018. Overall, the results support an open economy hybrid Phillips curve model of inflation with increased weight on...

The paper by Kamber, Mohanty and Morley (KMM hereafter) is a carefully executed empirical investigation of the determinants of inflation in a broad sample of advanced and emerging market economies.A number of recent multi-country empirical studies of inflation dynamics have used estimated...

This paper examines some standard open-economy New Keynesian models to address the question of how globalisation affects the inflation process. Specifically, it investigates how the Phillips curve for consumer price inflation in a country is affected by openness, and how the optimal choice of...

We examine whether a higher degree of trade integration is associated with a higher rate of price spillovers. More specifically, we examine how bilateral sector-specific trade integration affects the bilateral co-movements of sectoral prices. Our findings suggest that increasing trade...

The size of gross external portfolio holdings has among many countries increased substantially over the recent past. Over the same period the volatility of inflation has declined in most countries. Many previous papers argue that financial globalisation has led to improved policy-making and...

Our aim is to explore how globalisation has affected consumption risk-sharing in emerging market economies. To that end, we implement a consumption risk-sharing test, using the Barro-Ursua Macroeconomic data set. Its span lets us explore historic episodes in which globalisation has markedly...

This note describes and analyses Chile's economic integration into the global trading system, including the impact on goods, services, capital and labour. This was a gradual process starting in the mid-1970s. Currently Chile is a very open economy, even though immigration is a relatively new...

As a complex phenomenon, globalisation needs to be analysed on several levels. We discuss three related issues from the perspective of Latin American economies: the relationship between globalisation and growth performance; the possible trade-offs between integration and inequality, and the roles...