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The Dynamics of Emerging Market Equity Flows

Bekaert, Geert - 1999

We study the interrelationship between capital flows, returns, dividend yields and world interest rates in 20 emerging …

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On the Global Impact of Risk-off Shocks and Policy-put Frameworks

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2019

Global risk-off shocks can be highly destabilizing for financial markets and, absent an adequate policy response, may trigger severe recessions. Policy responses were more complex for developed economies with very low interest rates after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). We document, however,...

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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 …

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The Real Effects of Financial Constraints : Evidence from a Financial Crisis

Campello, Murillo - 2009

We survey 1,050 CFOs in the U.S., Europe, and Asia to assess whether their firms are credit constrained during the global credit crisis of 2008. We study whether corporate spending plans differ conditional on this measure of financial constraint. Our evidence indicates that constrained firms...

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Financial Openness and Productivity

Bekaert, Geert - 2009

Financial openness is often associated with higher rates of economic growth. We show that the impact of openness on factor productivity growth is more important than the effect on capital growth. This explains why the growth effects of liberalization appear to be largely permanent, not...

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What Segments Equity Markets?

Bekaert, Geert - 2009

We propose a new, valuation-based measure of world equity market segmentation. While we observe decreased levels of …

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Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2009

behind this crisis is the large demand for riskless assets from the rest of the world. In this paper we present a model to …

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Financial Crash, Commodity Prices and Global Imbalances

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2008

In this paper we argue that the persistent global imbalances, the subprime crisis, and the volatile oil and asset prices that followed it, are tightly interconnected. They all stem from a global environment where sound and liquid financial assets are in scarce supply

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On the Macroeconomics of Asset Shortages

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2006

The world has a shortage of financial assets. Asset supply is having a hard time keeping up with the global demand for … and deflationary episodes in parts of the world, all fall into place once one adopts this asset shortage perspective …

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An Equilibrium Model of "Global Imbalances" and Low Interest Rates

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2006

the world and, b) heterogeneity in these regions' capacity to generate financial assets from real investments. In …

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