The post-crisis period has seen a considerable shift in the composition and drivers of international bank lending and international bond issuance, the two main components of global liquidity. The sensitivity of both types of flows to U.S. monetary policy rose substantially in the immediate...

I provide a framework for understanding debt deleveraging in a group of _nancially integrated countries. During an episode of international deleveraging world consumption demand is depressed and the world interest rate is low, reecting a high propensity to save. If exchange rates are allowed to...

Global liquidity refers to the volumes of financial flows-largely intermediated through global banks and non-bank financial institutions-that can move at relatively high frequencies across borders. The amplitude of responses to global conditions like risk sentiment, discussed in the context of...