This paper presents a framework to analyse financial globalization. It argues that financial globalization needs to take into account the relation between money (particularly in its role as store of value), asset and factor price flexibility, and contractual and regulatory institutions....

To cope with the self-fulfilling liquidity runs that have triggered many recent financial crises, we propose the creation of a country insurance facility. The facility, which we envisage as complementary to the existing multilateral lending facilities, would provide eligible countries with...

From an emerging markets perspective, the global safety net remains full of holes despite recent stitches during the crisis. This paper proposes an effective and workable international lender-of-last-resort (ILLR) for systemic liquidity crises based on (i) an automatic trigger to access the...