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This paper examines the implications of the global financial crisis of 2007-10 for reform of the global financial architecture, in particular the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Board and their interaction. These two institutions are not fully comparable, but they must...
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We review the competing explanations of the 2007-2008 global crisis, recall how governments around the world had to …-bail-out world, the trade-off between financial stability and the cost of capital, the feasibility for central banks to manage their …
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Global current account imbalances widened before the 2007/2008 crisis and have narrowed since. While the post-crisis adjustment of European current account deficits was in line with global developments (though more forceful), European current account surpluses defied global trends and increased....
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The last decade has seen a rapid expansion and deepening of the types of vehicles that fund start-up firms in the U.S. and worldwide. In particular, we have seen a growing role of angel groups and other more "individualistic" funding options for start-ups, such as super angels or crowd sourcing...
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The more severe a financial crisis, the greater has been the likelihood of its management under an IMF-supported programme and the shorter the time from crisis onset to programme initiation. Political links to the United States have increased programme likelihood but have prompted faster...
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The faltering Doha round has led to a renewed focus on large regional trade agreements. There are two super-RTAs in the making in the Asia-Pacific and one in the Atlantic, all with rather ambitious negotiation targets, and presented as alternate means to reset global trade rules and take the...
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The world economy is going through its biggest transformation in a relatively short space time. There have been many … projections to 2020 are broadly right, then many established frameworks for the running of the world economy and its governance … seems little understood. In turn, there has been little preparation for, or adjustment to, this changing world, though if …
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We gauge the de-facto capital account openness of the Chinese and Indian economies by testing the law of one price on … economies becoming more financially open over time. Over the past decade, the Indian economy on average appears to be more open … financially than the Chinese economy, but China seems to be catching up with India in the wake of the global financial crisis …
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