Do external imbalances increase the risk of financial crises? In this paper, we study the experience of 14 developed …

behind this crisis is the large demand for riskless assets from the rest of the world. In this paper we present a model to … downturn by concentrating risk onto its balance sheet. In addition to highlighting the role of capital flows in facilitating … concern with capital flows is in their speculative nature, in the U.S. the risk in capital inflows derives from the opposite …

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 …

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

and pre-World War I gold standard eras …

interest. This image of the current system as Bretton Woods reborn also overlooks how the world has changed since the 1960s … resembling the Bretton Woods System, it is not long for this world …

This paper explores the consequences of extremely low equilibrium real interest rates in a world with integrated but …) While more price and wage flexibility exacerbates the risk of a deflationary global liquidity trap, it is the more rigid …

countries as a group relative to gross world product. This, in turn, is an indication of increasing severity of adjustment … (UK in the pre World War I period; Germany and Australia in the 1990s) …