This paper highlights the spread of banking panics across countries, as the public reassesses governments' propensity to bailouts. Policymakers decide whether to rescue a failing banking sector, by weighing the costs of a collapse against the costs associated with raising taxes to finance a...

The paper argues that the factors that determine treatment priority in socialized medicine, namely gravity of complaint and patient “importance†are similar to those that determine whether or not a frail banking system will be bailed out in a fixed exchange rate regime.

This paper highlights the spread of banking panics across countries, as the public reassesses governments' propensity to bailouts. Policymakers decide whether to rescue a failing banking sector, by weighing the costs of a collapse against the costs associated with raising taxes to finance a...

This paper focuses on the transmission of bank liquidity shocks in Loan and deposit in emerging markets. First, we attempt to identify the factors that affect the credit strategy of foreign banks in emerging countries. Second, we test whether depositors do exert market discipline on foreign...

Most empirical works have focused on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) to exports and other economic performance indicators, whereas its impacts to profit outflows has been relatively neglected. This paper investigates the nature of the causal relationship between FDI and profit...

In this paper we use a system of simultaneous equations and Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) to investigate the relation between bilateral exchange rate volatility and the relevant variables pointed out by the theory of optimum currency areas (OCA) for 21 selected African countries for the...

In this paper, we introduce a proxy for the legal protection of investors, a dummy variable that indicates legal origins, into the Feldstein and Horioka (1980, Economic Journal 90) saving-investment regression. The estimations show that in the French-civil-law countries, which have the weakest...

Four different schemes for classifying exchange rate regimes are compared for developing countries. Disagreements are substantial, and alternative schemes disagree as much with each other as with the official scheme. Only the official scheme shows a trend towards floating

In this note we show that an exchange rate crawling-band system can borrow a portion of those aspects of a target zone that lead to its stabilizing effects on the exchange rate, depending on the relationship between the crawl rate and the drift of the fundamentals process. If the crawl rate is...

I find that real variables affect the real exchange rate almost entirely through the relative price of traded goods. This finding casts doubt on the theoretical literature that postulates that real shocks propagate only through the relative price of nontraded goods.