Connotation of Global Governance -- Definition of Global Economic Governance -- Historical Evolution of the Global Economic Governance Structure -- Impetus for Evolution of the Global Economic Governance Structure -- Reform Orientation of Global Economic Governance -- Overview of the Evolution...

Global liquidity as a new trend in international capital flows -- Destination of Global Liquidity before the Global Financial Crisis: Role of Foreign Bank Presence and the EU Effect -- Global Liquidity and Reallocation of Domestic Credit -- Global Financial Crisis and Demand for the US Dollar as...

1 Introduction: The Development of International Banking in Asia (Ayumu Sugawara, Takeshi Nishimura) -- 2 International Financial Centres in Europe and Asia, 1900 – 2000 (Youssef Cassis) -- 3 From Silver to Gold: The Currency Reforms in Asia before 1914 (Takeshi Nishimura) -- 4 British...

Recent events have shown that sovereigns, just like banks, can be subject to runs, highlighting the importance of the investor base for their liabilities. This paper proposes a methodology for compiling internationally comparable estimates of investor holdings of sovereign debt. Based on this...

Uncertainty about the riskiness of new financial products was an important factor behind the U.S. credit crisis. We show that a boom-bust cycle in debt, asset prices and consumption characterizes the equilibrium dynamics of a model with a collateral constraint in which agents learn "by...

For a sample of 83 financial institutions during 2003–2011, this paper attempts to answer three questions: first, what is the evolution of banks’ stock price exposure to country-level and global risk factors as approximated by equity indices; second, which bank-specific characteristics...

This paper studies how financial stress is transmitted from advanced to emerging economies, using a new financial stress index for emerging economies. An episode of financial stress is defined as a period when the financial system's ability to intermediate may be impaired. Previous financial...