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While the 2008-2009 financial crisis originated in the United States, we witnessed steep declines in output, consumption and investment of similar magnitudes around the globe. This raises two questions. First, given the observed strong home bias in goods and financial markets, what can account...
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changing demands for modern central bank interventions in the economy. Financial instability, followed by WWII, left a world …
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Financial globalization was off to a rocky start in emerging economies hit by Sudden Stops since the mid 1990s. Foreign … saving affects foreign assets via three mechanisms: business cycle volatility, financial globalization, and Sudden Stop risk … Irving Fisher's debt-deflation mechanism. Our results show that financial globalization and Sudden Stop risk are plausible …
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In this paper I analyze the role of openness and globalization in Latin America's economic development. The paper is … crises have been more costly in Latin America than in the rest of the world. I also find that the cost of external crises has …
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Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First …
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The crises in Mexico, Thailand, and Russia in the 1990s spread quite rapidly to countries as far apart as South Africa and Pakistan. In the aftermath of these crises, many emerging economies lost access to international capital markets. Using data on international primary issuance, this paper...
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We consider the operation of international capital markets in two periods of globalization, before 1914 and after 1971 … international monetary framework was responsible for the relatively short-lived and mild nature of pre-World War I financial crises …
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valuation gap for firms from developed markets increases by 31% after the GFC – a reversal in financial globalization – while …
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We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...
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Globalization has made it possible for labor in developing countries to augment labor in the developed world, without … world's effective labor supply, triggered by geo-political events and technological innovations, coupled with the inability …
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