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The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …
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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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, they now appear less well placed to cope with the substantial downside risks facing the global economy. In many EMDEs, the …
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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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economy and, especially, emerging market and developing economies, have suffered a decade of weak growth despite unprecedented …
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The Covid-19 pandemic is a major test for governments around the world. We study the political consequences of (mis …
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the U.S. would experience a sudden stop of capital flows, which would unavoidably drag the world economy into a deep … of exposing the economy to a systemic panic. This structural problem can be alleviated if governments around the world … instead that the root imbalance was of a different kind: The entire world had an insatiable demand for safe debt instruments …
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, however, is that there seem to be certain "threshold" levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs …
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behind this crisis is the large demand for riskless assets from the rest of the world. In this paper we present a model to …
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Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...
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