A number of East Asian and Latin American countries have beeen the recipients of a large portion of total international capital flows to developing countries, both in the late seventies/early eighties and in the early nineties. These inflows have financed persistent current account imbalances,...

Financing pension systems necessitates that actual output is redistributed from workers and entrepreneurs actually in activity in favour of retirees. Therefore, in a closed economy, the return on accrued pension funds, to be distributed to pensioners, is ceiled by the real growth of income,...

The abundance of private capital flows confronts many emerging-market authorities with a transfer problem. They must decide whether to accept or resist the net capital inflow, or how much to accept and how much to resist. This paper aims at assisting that decision by focusing on the rationale,...

We offer a model inwhich lenders differ in wealth endowments and choose the quality of information which they use in the process of foreign lending. We trace the effects of foreign and domestic interest rates, quality of information, quality of the pool of lending opportunities, etc. on the...

The paper explores whether and how current lending-of-last-resort can be extended beyond national borders. It argues that what makes lending of last resort effective at the national level is a blend of resource availability, technical discretion, ex-ante supervision, and powers of enforcement....

This study argues that a notion of current-account sustainability that considers the willingness to pay and to lend, in addition to intertemporal solvency, provides a better framework for understanding the variety of experiences countries have had with protracted current-account imbalances.

Cet article examine le point de vue selon lequel les deficits ou l'endettement public ont une forte influence sur la formation des taux d'interet. Inspire des representations en terme d'equilibre du marche des capitaux, lieu theorique ou s'arbitreraient epargne et investissement, son emprise sur...

The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...

The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...