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The global imbalance explanation of the financial crisis of 2007-09 suggests that demand for riskless assets from countries with current account surpluses created fragility in countries with current account deficits, most notably, in the United States. We examine this explanation by analyzing...
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Using the 2007-09 financial crisis as a laboratory, we analyze the transmission of crises to country-industry equity portfolios in 55 countries. We use a factor model to predict crisis returns, defining unexplained increases in factor loadings and residual correlations as indicative of...
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Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First, more than half of the rise in net borrowing of the U.S. nonfinancial sectors since the mid 1980s has been financed by foreign lending. Second, the collapse of the U.S. housing...
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Globalization has made it possible for labor in developing countries to augment labor in the developed world, without … world's effective labor supply, triggered by geo-political events and technological innovations, coupled with the inability …
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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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The crises in Mexico, Thailand, and Russia in the 1990s spread quite rapidly to countries as far apart as South Africa and Pakistan. In the aftermath of these crises, many emerging economies lost access to international capital markets. Using data on international primary issuance, this paper...
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international monetary framework was responsible for the relatively short-lived and mild nature of pre-World War I financial crises …
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. The paper provides an overview of the new globalization trends in the world and in Israel, with emphasis on the role of … side only. On the demand side, the desire to invest has plunged, while people across the rich world are now saving much of …
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of both advanced and emerging countries during two periods of globalization -- the pre-World War I classical gold …
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