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Capital Flows and Economic Growth in the Era of Financial Integration and Crisis, 1990-2010
Aizenman, Joshua - 2011
We investigate the relationship between economic growth and lagged international capital flows, disaggregated into FDI, portfolio investment, equity investment, and short-term debt. We follow about 100 countries during 1990-2010 when emerging markets became more integrated into the international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119605
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The "Other" Imbalance and the Financial Crisis
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010
the U.S. would experience a sudden stop of capital flows, which would unavoidably drag the world economy into a deep … instead that the root imbalance was of a different kind: The entire world had an insatiable demand for safe debt instruments … of exposing the economy to a systemic panic. This structural problem can be alleviated if governments around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149302
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The Financial Crisis and the Geography of Wealth Transfers
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2013
This paper studies the geography of wealth transfers during the 2008 global financial crisis. We construct valuation changes on bilateral external positions in equity, direct investment and portfolio debt at the height of the crisis to map who benefited and who lost on their external exposure....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092491
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Boom-Bust Capital Flow Cycles
Kaminsky, Graciela - 2019
This paper examines the new trends in research on capital flows fueled by the 2007-2009 Global Crisis. Previous studies on capital flows focused on current-account imbalances and net capital flows. The Global Crisis changed that. The onset of this crisis was preceded by a dramatic increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869219
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Keeping Capital Flowing : The Role of the IMF
Bordo, Michael D.; Mody, Ashoka; Oomes, Nienke - 2021
In this paper, we examine the IMF's role in maintaining the access of emerging market economies to international capital markets. We find evidence that both macroeconomic aggregates and capital flows improve following the adoption of an IMF program, although they may initially deteriorate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216885
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Linking External Sector Imbalances and Changing Financial Instability Before the 2008 Financial Crisis
Whalley, John - 2011
supplies over all countries as a group relative to gross world product. This, in turn, is an indication of increasing severity … imbalances relative to GDP than in 2008 for considerable periods of time and with no financial implosion (UK in the pre World War …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117566
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Home Bias in Open Economy Financial Macroeconomics
Coeurdacier, Nicolas - 2011
Home bias is a perennial feature of international capital markets. We review various explanations of this puzzling phenomenon highlighting recent developments in macroeconomic modelling that incorporate international portfolio choices in standard two-country general equilibrium models. We refer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117208
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Capital Flows : Catalyst or Hindrance to Economic Takeoffs?
Aizenman, Joshua - 2011
This paper applies a probit estimation to assess the relationship between economic takeoffs during 1950-2000 and inflows of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI, controlling for country's stock of short-term external debt and commodity terms of trade. Average level of FDI inflows is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122019
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Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows : The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens
Coppola, Antonio - 2020
restate bilateral investment positions to better reflect the true financial linkages connecting countries around the world. We … nearly 600 billion dollars, while China's official net creditor position to the rest of the world is overstated by about 50 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839470
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The Limits of Financial Globalization
Stulz, René M. - 2005
Despite the dramatic reduction in explicit barriers to international investment activity over the last 60 years, the impact of financial globalization has been remarkably limited. I argue that country attributes are still critical to financial decision-making because of what I call the twin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012784989