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advantage. Financial globalization then induces more specialization and more trade. The present framework yields explicit closed …
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the weight of U.S. liabilities in the rest of the world''s stock of external assets. Finally, it relates the empirical …
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Economic adjustment and reform programs, including those supported by international financial institutions (IFIs), must cope with informational asymmetries and special interest politics. This presents a particularly serious issue when IFIs make structural economic reforms a condition for...
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This paper investigates empirically the relevance of external, domestic, and financial weaknesses as well as trade and financial linkages in inducing financial crises for a sample of 61 emerging market and industrial countries. A panel probit estimation finds these economic indicators to be...
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We present a novel and comprehensive dataset of bilateral gross and net external positions in various financial instruments for the main advanced and emerging economies and regions, designed to improve our understanding of cross-border financial linkages. The data show no strong correspondence...
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The US economy is often referred to as the "banker to the world," due to its unique role in supplying global reserve … globalization raises wealth inequality in a financially-developed economy initially due to foreign capital pressing up domestic …
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Abstract In this paper we ask whether countries can influence their exposure to changes in global financial conditions. Specifically, we show that even though we can model cross-country capital flows via a global factor that closely tracks changes in global financial conditions, there is a large...
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We estimate world cycles using a new quarterly dataset of output, credit and asset prices assembled using IMF archives … and covering a large set of advanced and emerging economies since 1950. World cycles, both real and financial, exist and … time. Although this is true for prices (goods and assets), this not true for quantities (output and credit). The world …
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