[...]In this article, we demonstrate how such industry-specific realexchange rates can be constructed and present the recent pathsof these indexes. We next present three basic real exchange ratemeasures for each industry: one using export partner weightsonly, a second using import partner...

[...]This article contributes factually to the debate over theopening of emerging markets to foreign participation byexploring the experiences of Argentina and Mexico—two markets that exhibit a significant degree and duration offoreign bank activity.We begin our analysis by presenting the...

[...]This article presents four measures of externalorientation using industry-specific and time-varying datafor manufacturing industries in four countries—theUnited States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan.For each of these countries, we report export revenueshare, imports relative to...

[...]This article attempts to bridge some of the gap betweenresearch on real-side FDI and work on financial sector FDI bypresenting a selective survey of the literature. We argue thatreal-side and financial sector FDI share many features.Accordingly, there are many lessons in the research that...