La correlación entre los ciclos económicos depende del estado de la economía y es más alta en recesiones que en expansiones. En este documento sugiero un mecanismo para explicar la causa. Para este propósito, construyo un modelo de ciclo económico real internacional con restricciones de...

A two sector small open economy model developed by Corden (1991, 2002) is used to analyse the impact of sudden stops in capital inflows on an internal and external equilibrium and to explore the merits of disposing of the nominal exchange rate as policy tool in rectifying real exchange rate...

Emerging market countries that have improved institutions and attained intermediate levels of institutional quality have experienced severe financial crises following capital flow reversals. However, there is also evidence that countries with strong institutions and deep capital markets are less...

Reversiones en los flujos de capital pueden comportar graves consecuencias económicas. Este artículo desarrolla un modelo dinámico de equilibrio general para analizar el efecto sobre tasas de interés, precios de los activos, inversión, consumo, producción, tipo de cambio y cuenta corriente...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. December 2009. Major: Economics. Advisor: Fabrizio Perri. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 114 pages, appendices A-C.

In this dissertation, I study international financial crises. For this purpose, I build two models. In the first model, I focus on financial crises in developing, large open economies where foreign debt with various maturities and issue dates is available. The objective is to measure the...

This dissertation attempts in three essays to contribute to the growing body of research on the problems associated with sudden stops of capital inflows, known to have been at the heart of many recent emerging market crises. It does this by developing basic models that can incorporate sudden...

I investigate: (i) Agency problems between debt and equity holders, and their impact on capital structure and investment policy; (ii) Agency problems between firm managers and capital providers.The first chapter, "Investment and Financing under Reverse Asset Substitution", shows that banks place...

Many economists have observed that the financial system has a positive and monotoniceffect on economic growth. In this study we reaffirm the finance-growth nexus. We adopta three-tier approach for the study’s methodology using panel data of 66 countries from1986 to 2005. Firstly, we test for...

This paper aims to make an empirical contribution to the discussion of the role of banks and to find out if banking is a declining industry. It takes into account that the role of banks is declining in the United States and the fact that the American economy usually sets the trend for the other...