as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power … along the value chain) also affect supply. This paper briefly reviews a number of factors that may distort international … absence of policy -- generate international spillovers that call for the negotiation of international policy disciplines …

International mutual funds are one of the main channels for capital flows to emerging economies. Although mutual funds … strategies. The authors provide an overview of mutual fund activity in emerging markets. First, they describe international … than domestic U.S. funds and world funds. When investigating abroad, U.S. mutual funds invest more in equity than in bonds …

The simmering sovereign debt crisis in the Euro Zone represents a looming threat to the recovery of the world economy …

relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the … alternative measures, and find that, in the 2000s, financial globalization has grown only marginally and international portfolio … globalization for local market deepening, international risk diversification, financial contagion, and financial dollarization, and …

This paper assesses the international comovement of gross capital inflows and outflows using a two-level factor model … (the VIX, the U.S. real interest rate and real exchange rate, U.S. GDP growth, and world commodity prices) that explain …

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …

findings show that more effective collaboration can be sustained when it is enforced by an international financial institution …