Hedge funds are collective investment vehicles, often organized as private partnerships and resident offshore for tax and regulatory purposes. Their legal status places few restrictions on their portfolios and transactions, leaving their managers free to use short sales, derivative securities,...

I. Background. 1 Introduction -- 2 A century of capital flows -- II. Capital account liberalization. 3 Capital account liberalization : what do the cross-country studies tell us? -- 4 When does capital account liberalization help more than it hurts? with Carlos Arteta and Charles Wyplosz -- III....

Die Ursachen der beiden gröt︢en ökonomischen Katastrophen in den letzten 100 Jahren - die Weltwirtschaftskrise in den 1930er-Jahren und die Finanzkrise seit 2008 - gleichen einander wie ein Ei dem anderen. Beide entstanden infolge eines krassen Kreditbooms, dubioser Bankpraktiken sowie eines...

A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuanAt first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power's currency-the British pound, the U.S. dollar, and perhaps someday the...