The paper tests three hypotheses concerning foreign equity investment in the presence of liquidity risk. First, the FDI …-to-FPI price differential is negatively related to liquidity risk (the "Price Discount Hypothesis"). The idea is that market …

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 …

In recent years the world economy has been subject to large and unsyncronized changes in fiscal policies, high and … builds on a two-country model of the world economy which is applied to the analysis of the transmission and effects of …

This paper analyses the effects of fiscal policies on rates of interest and wealth in the world economy. Uncertainty … exert real effects. It is shown that a current budget deficit(resulting from a tax cut) raises world rates of interest. On … transmission. In the long run, a higher steady-state value of government debt raises the steady-state world rate of interest but …

This paper deals with the international transmission of the effects of budget deficits on world rates of interest and … spending. The model assumes a two-country world within which capital markets are integrated, individuals behave rationally, and … horizon was finite. This formulation generates asimple pattern of aggregate behavior of the two-country world, and it assures …

Global risk-off shocks can be highly destabilizing for financial markets and, absent an adequate policy response, may …-put framework that reduced the persistence of risk-off shocks. We also show that domestic macroeconomic and financial conditions … play a key role in benefiting from the spillovers of these policies during risk-off episodes. Countries like Japan, which …

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 …