Showing 1 - 10 of 875
state bonds, which the Iraqi government is currently servicing, on world financial markets. After the Surge, there was a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775883
Developing countries now account for a significant fraction of both world trade and two thirds of the membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually small and thus have a limited ability to bilaterally extract and enforce trade concessions from larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118254
The global crisis highlights the continued vulnerability of developing countries to shocks from advanced economies. Just a few years after the global crisis, the eurozone sovereign debt crisis has emerged as the single biggest threat to the global outlook. In this paper, we apply the event study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091076
For three years after the typical emerging economy opens its stock market to inflows of foreign capital, the average annual growth rate of the real wage in the manufacturing sector increases by a factor of three. No such increase occurs in a control group of countries. The temporary increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151651
Previous empirical studies of secondary market discounts for developing countries have ignored important creditor country factors. The empirical evidence in this paper indicates that, after controlling for repayment indicators of borrower countries, bank exposure and capital are important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012787480
This lecture examines whether financial globalization is beneficial to developing countries by first examining the evidence on financial development and economic growth and concludes that financial development is indeed a key element in promoting economic growth. It then asks why if financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761881
In spite of significant institutional and macroeconomic reforms over the last decade or two, capital flows to developing economies remain highly volatile. In 1996, net private capital flows to emerging markets reached US$230 billions; by 1997 these flows had been cut in half; by 1998 halved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762843
We investigate why and how the financial conditions of developing and emerging market countries (peripheral countries) can be affected by the movements in the center economies - the U.S., Japan, the Eurozone, and China. We apply a two-step approach. First, we estimate the sensitivity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023347
Ideological debates on the role of government in development have focused on two contrasting prescriptions: one calling … for large scale government interventions to solve problems of massive market failures, the other for the unfettering of … exploration of a middle road, focusing in particular on the role of government in financial markets. After explaining the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219988
Financial factors have been assigned strategic importance in economic development. But very different factors have been isolated in the respective experiences: in Asia unrepressed financial markets in mobilizing saving and allocating investment have been given prominence. In Latin America the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226568