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The last few years have seen a significant re-evaluation of the models used to analyze crises in emerging markets. Recent models typically stress financial constraints or distorted financial incentives. While this certainly represents progress, these models share a weakness with the earlier...
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Several recent twin' currency and banking crises were preceded by lending booms during which the banking system financed rapid growth of the nontradable (N) sector by borrowing in foreign currency. They were followed by recessions during which a sharp decline in credit especially hurt the...
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theory highlights the following points: 1) a currency's role as a unit of account for invoicing decisions is complementary to …, thereby bestowing an "exorbitant privilege" on the dominant currency. The theory thus provides a unified explanation for why a …
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modern version of monetary mercantilism -- hoarding international reserves in order to improve competitiveness. From a long …-run perspective, manufacturing exporters in East Asia adopted financial mercantilism -- subsidizing the cost of capital -- during … disentangle the monetary mercantilism from precautionary response to the heritage of past financial mercantilism. Monetary …
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Chinese outward-mercantilism, which aims at securing a higher rate of returns on its net foreign asset position, leveraging …
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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...
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Despite an abundance of cross-section, panel, and event studies, there is strikingly little convincing documentation of direct positive impacts of financial opening on the economic welfare levels or growth rates of developing countries. The econometric difficulties are similar to those that...
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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...
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Financial markets are increasingly integrated globally. We examine the extent to which firms from different countries rely on alternative sources of capital, the locations where they raise capital, and the factors that affect these choices. During the 1990-2001 period, firms raised about $25.9...
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Contrary to the predictions of standard economic theory, capital market liberalization has been a mixed blessing for …
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