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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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Greater financial integration between core and peripheral EMU members had an effect on both sets of countries. Lower …. Core EMU countries took on extra foreign leverage to expose themselves to the peripherals. The result has been asset …’s introduction, Core EMU countries increased their borrowing from outside of EMU and their lending to the EMU periphery. …
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Greater financial integration between core and peripheral EMU members had an effect on both sets of countries. Lower …. Core EMU countries took on extra foreign leverage to expose themselves to the peripherals. The result has been asset …'s introduction, Core EMU countries increased their borrowing from outside of EMU and their lending to the EMU periphery. …
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Among the developing countries of the world, those emerging markets that have sought some degree of integration into the global financial system are characterized by higher per capita incomes, higher long-run growth rates, and lower output and consumption volatility. These characteristics are...
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This paper analyzes current stresses in the two key areas that concerned the architects of the original Bretton Woods system: international liquidity and exchange rate management. Despite radical changes since World War II in the market context for liquidity and exchange rate concerns, they...
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This paper analyzes current stresses in the two key areas that concerned the architects of the original Bretton Woods system: international liquidity and exchange rate management. Despite radical changes since World War II in the market context for liquidity and exchange rate concerns, they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385766
In this lecture I document the proliferation of gross international asset and liability positions and discuss some of the consequences for individual countries’ external adjustment processes and for global financial stability. In light of the rapid growth of gross global financial flows and...
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This paper argues that if policymakers seek to enhance global liquidity, then the international community must provide a higher and better coordinated level of fiscal support than it has in the past. Loans to troubled sovereigns or financial institutions imply a credit risk that ultimately must...
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Because of recent economic crises, financial fragility has regained prominence in both the theory and practice of macroeconomic policy. Consistent with macroeconomic paradigms prevalent at the time, the original architecture of the euro zone assumed that safeguards against inflation and...
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Greater financial integration between core and peripheral EMU members not only had an effect on both sets of countries …, which inflated their economies by allowing credit booms. Core EMU countries took on extra foreign leverage to expose …'s introduction, core EMU countries increased their borrowing from outside of EMU and their lending to the EMU periphery. Moreover, we …
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