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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 …. Essentially, the financial sector was able to create "safe" assets from the securitization of lower quality ones, but at the cost …
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Global liquidity refers to the volumes of financial flows - largely intermediated through global banks and non-bank … regulatory agendas related to non-bank financial institutions …
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different types of assets: equities, bonds and bank lending and new micro data on institutional holdings of equity at the fund …
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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...
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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....
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The post-crisis period has seen a considerable shift in the composition and drivers of international bank lending and … "taper tantrum", and then partially reverted towards pre-crisis levels. Conversely, the responsiveness of international bank … securities. The increased sensitivity of international bank flows to US monetary policy has been driven mainly by post …
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large asset price spillovers of country-specific shocks to bank capital. The impact of these shocks on asset prices are … amplified by bank capital requirements based on mark-to-market …
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The crises in Mexico, Thailand, and Russia in the 1990s spread quite rapidly to countries as far apart as South Africa and Pakistan. In the aftermath of these crises, many emerging economies lost access to international capital markets. Using data on international primary issuance, this paper...
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The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels with a variety of apparently conflicting results. We attempt to provide a unified conceptual framework for organizing this vast and growing...
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Over the last 20 years, some financial events, such as devaluations or defaults, have triggered an immediate adverse chain reaction in other countries -- which we call fast and furious contagion. Yet, on other occasions, similar events have failed to trigger any immediate international reaction....
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