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Institutional Efficiency, Monitoring Costs, and the Investment Share of FDI

Aizenman, Joshua - 2002

obstacles associated with corruption and weak institutions. We model these circumstances in a principal-agent framework with … economic corruption as an indicator of the strength of property right enforcement within a given country. We compare corruption … levels for a large cross section of countries in 1989 to subsequent FDI flows from 1990 to 1999. We find that corruption is …

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Coping with disasters : two centuries of international official lending

Horn, Sebastian; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2020

Official (government-to-government) lending is much larger than commonly known, often surpassing total private cross-border capital flows, especially during disasters such as wars, financial crises and natural catastrophes. We assemble the first comprehensive long-run dataset of official...

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Global Business Cycles : Convergence or Decoupling?

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2008

This paper analyzes the evolution of the degree of global cyclical interdependence over the period 1960-2005. We categorize the 106 countries in our sample into three groups-industrial countries, emerging markets, and other developing economies. Using a dynamic factor model, we then decompose...

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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?

Prasad, Eswar - 2008

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various measures of productivity and financial openness for a large sample of countries. We find that de jure capital...

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Financial Globalization : A Reappraisal

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2006

The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels and with a variety of apparently conflicting results. For instance, there is still little robust evidence of the growth benefits of broad...

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Do Credit Shocks Matter? : A Global Perspective

Helbling, Thomas - 2010

have a significant impact on the evolution of world growth during global recessions …

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Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Volatility

Terrones, Marco - 2003

This paper examines the impact of international financial integration on macroeconomic volatility in a large group of industrial and developing economies over the period 1960-99. We report two major results: First, while the volatility of output growth has, on average, declined in the 1990s...

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How Does Financial Globalization Affect Risk Sharing? : Patterns and Channels

Terrones, Marco - 2007

In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. This paper provides a comprehensive empirical evaluation of the patterns of risk sharing among different groups of countries and examines how international...

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Controlled Openness and Foreign Direct Investment

Aizenman, Joshua - 1997

The purpose of this paper is to offer an explanation of why a developing country may adopt a partial reform under which foreign direct investments are controlled. We consider a country where the ruling elite [referred to as State capital] prevents the entry of Foreign capital and taxes the...

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Global Macro-Financial Cycles and Spillovers

Ha, Jongrim - 2020

We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...

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