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This paper models the global financial crisis as a combination of shocks to global housing markets and sharp increases in risk premia of firms, households and international investors in a global economic model. The model has six sectors of production and trade in 15 major economies and regions....
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Financial globalization, defined as global linkages through cross-border financial flows, has become increasingly … relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the … way it is often measured, it has also led to the misperception that financial globalization in emerging markets has been …
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economic management in the developed world and the economic models that guide it. The crisis has revealed major market failures … market-state balance, macroeconomic management, globalization, development financing, and public spending. On the one hand … should largely reinforce the Post-Washington Consensus on development that has emerged over the past decade -- a world view …
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The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications …
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, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple …
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First Japan and more recently China have pursued export-oriented growth strategies. While other Asian countries have done likewise, Japan and China are of particular interest because their economies are so large and the size of the associated bilateral trade imbalances with the United States so...
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interaction among Russia's deteriorating fiscal fundamentals, its weak micro-foundations of growth and financial globalization … notwithstanding. These include a discussion of when financial globalization might actually hurt and a cutoff in market access might …
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Financial liberalization may have a positive effect on growth not only through the increase in the quantity of the available funds, but also through a more efficient allocation of resources across firms and sectors. Despite this intuitive appeal, there is little empirical evidence on the...
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This paper addresses the mechanisms by which trade openness affects growth volatility. Using a diverse set of export diversification indicators, it presents strong evidence pointing to an important role for export diversification in reducing the effect of trade openness on growth volatility. The...
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international trade. As world trade is set to rebound, this paper addresses three questions: (i) Will trade volumes rebound in a … symmetric fashion as world economic growth rebounds? (ii) Will the crisis result in a change in the structure of trade, and in …
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