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allows banks in different regions to smooth local liquidity shocks by borrowing and lending on a world interbank market. We … second-best world, financial integration can increase the welfare benefits of liquidity requirements …
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simplistic models arguing for financial integration typically employed in economics assume convexity; but the world is rife with …
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How does financial integration impact capital accumulation, current-account dynamics, and cross-country inequality? We investigate this question within a two-country, general-equilibrium, incomplete-markets model that focuses on the importance of idiosyncratic entrepreneurial risk-- a risk that...
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identifiable thresholds in variables such as financial depth and institutional quality -- the cost-benefit trade-off from financial …
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Large and persistent global financial imbalances need not be the harbinger of a world financial crash. Instead, we show …
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these vicissitudes quantitatively and explaining them. Economic theory and economic history together can provide useful …
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Between 2000 and 2012, the Portuguese economy grew less than the United States during the Great Depression and less than Japan during its lost decade. This paper asks why this happened, with a particular focus on the slump between 2000 and 2007. It describes the main facts of Portugal's recent...
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Measuring the integration of world capital markets is notoriously difficult. For example, regulatory changes which … equity market becomes financially integrated with world capital markets. We find endogenous break dates that are very … markets are on average larger and more liquid than before; returns are more volatile and more highly correlated with the world …
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International capital flows have increased dramatically since the 1980s, with much of the increase being due to trade … in equity and debt markets. Such developments are often attributed to the increased integration of world financial … markets. We present a model that allows us to examine how greater integration in world financial markets affects the behavior …
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The literature has shown that the implied welfare gains from international financial integration are very small. We revisit the existing findings and document that welfare gains can be substantial if capital goods are not perfect substitutes. We use a model of optimal savings that includes a...
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