The current global crisis, although initially circumscribed to the US housing market, spread rapidly across markets and borders. It has affected almost all countries through different reinforcing channels: the contraction in international trade, capital flows, remittances, and international...

This note examines the extent to which firms in Latin America have been able to raise capital through debt and equity securities as well as syndicated loans, both abroad and domestically, since the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis. The public and the private sectors alike lost access to...

Although foreign direct investment (FDI) flows have tended to remain resilient during previous crises, they may not behave in a similar fashion during the current crisis. Why? In past crises, the stability of FDI flows was significantly associated with an increase in mergers and acquisitions...