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The renminbi's role in the global monetary system
Prasad, Eswar; Ye, Lei - 2012
changes for the balance and sustainability of China's own economic development as well as the associated implications for the … global monetary system. While China is actively promoting the internationalization of its currency, it is a long way from … attaining full convertibility or meeting other prerequisites for achieving reserve currency status. Ultimately, China will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282485
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The Renminbi's Role in the Global Monetary System
Prasad, Eswar; Ye, Lei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
changes for the balance and sustainability of China's own economic development as well as the associated implications for the … global monetary system. While China is actively promoting the internationalization of its currency, it is a long way from … attaining full convertibility or meeting other prerequisites for achieving reserve currency status. Ultimately, China will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646302
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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005
This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267663
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How does financial globalization affect risk sharing? Patterns and channels
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2007
In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of the patterns of risk sharing among different groups of countries and examine how international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268195
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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269032
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Financial globalization and economic policies
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar; Rogoff, Kenneth; Wei, … - 2009
We review the large literature on various economic policies that could help developing economies effectively manage the process of financial globalization. Our central findings indicate that policies promoting financial sector development, institutional quality and trade openness appear to help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269041
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India's approach to capital account liberalization
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2009
In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated path to capital account opening, which has served the economy well in terms of reducing its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269146
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International financial integration and Real Exchange Rate long-run dynamics in emerging countries: some panel evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Amor, Thouraya Hadj; Rault, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271575
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Role reversal in global finance
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2011
I document that emerging markets have cast off their original sin their external liabilities are no longer dominated by foreign-currency debt and have instead shifted sharply towards direct investment and portfolio equity. Their external assets are increasingly concentrated in foreign exchange...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282136
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Private information, human capital, and optimal 'home bias' in financial markets
Ehrlich, Isaac; Shin, Jong Kook; Yin, Yong - 2011
By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or home bias, from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the bias to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286893