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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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The Currency Composition of International Reserves, Demand for International Reserves, and Global Safe Assets

Aizenman, Joshua - 2019

This paper examines determinants of the international reserves (IR) currency composition before and after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Applying the annual data of 58 countries, we confirm that countries that trade more with the US, euro zone, UK, and Japan, and issue more debt denominated...

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Determinants of Financial Stress and Recovery during the Great Recession

Aizenman, Joshua - 2010

In this paper, we explore the link between stress in the domestic financial sector and the capital flight faced by countries in the 2008-9 global crisis. Both the timing of emergence of internal financial stress in developing economies, and the size of the peak-trough declines in the stock price...

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From the Great Moderation to the global crisis : Exchange market pressure in the 2000s

Aizenman, Joshua - 2010

This paper investigates the factors explaining exchange market pressures (EMP) and the hoarding and use of international reserves (IR) by emerging markets during the 2000s, as the Great Moderation turned to the 2008-9 global crisis and great recession. According to our results, both financial...

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Assessing the Emerging Global Financial Architecture : Measuring the Trilemma's Configurations over Time

Aizenman, Joshua - 2008

We develop a methodology that intuitively characterizes the choices countries have made with respect to the trilemma during the post Bretton-Woods period. The paper first outlines the new metrics for measuring the degree of exchange rate flexibility, monetary independence, and capital account...

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The Internationalization of Venture Capital and Private Equity

Aizenman, Joshua - 2008

This paper investigates the internationalization of venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) investments. We derive flows between countries of VC and PE investments worldwide, relying on comprehensive firm-level data sources, covering three decades and about 100 countries. A gravity analysis...

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Restructuring sovereign bonds : holdouts, haircuts and the effectiveness of CACs

Fang, Chuck; Schumacher, Julian; Trebesch, Christoph - 2021 - This version: November 2020

higher haircuts see higher holdout rates, and the same is true for small bonds and those issued under foreign law. Collective …

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Corona politics : the cost of mismanaging pandemics

Herrera, Helios; Konradt, Maximilian; Ordoñez, Guillermo; … - In: Covid economics : vetted and real-time papers (2020) 50, pp. 3-32

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Corona politics : the cost of mismanaging pandemics

Herrera, Helios; Konradt, Maximilian; Ordoñez, Guillermo; … - 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic is a major test for governments around the world. We study the political consequences of (mis …

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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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