This paper develops a model of exchange rate dynamics that takes into account positions in foreign and domestic equities in addition to “standard” short-term riskless securities. The modeling of cross-country stock holdings is motivated by evidence that a large and ever-increasing proportion...

In this article we construct a simple open-economy macro model to examine how capital flows, monetary policy and dividend policies of firms influence asset prices, economic activity and inflation. In this model, we consider a three-asset framework based on domestic money, domestic equity and...

We study how investor behavior affects the transmission of financial crises. If investors exhibit decreasing relative risk aversion, then negative wealth shocks increase the risk premium required to hold risky assets. We integrate this into a second generation model of currency crises which...

En mayo de 2007 las autoridades económicas de Colombia re-introdujeron el encaje al endeudamiento externo y añadieron la misma figura para las inversiones de portafolio. Se pretendía limitar la entrada de capitales de corto plazo y de esta manera controlar la apreciación de la moneda que en...

Emerging market crises are characterized by large swings in both macroeconomic fundamentals and asset prices. The economic significance of observed movements in macroeconomic variables is obscured by the brief and extreme nature of crises. In this paper we propose to study the macroeconomic...

This paper studies the impact of international capital flows on asset prices through risk premia. We investigate whether foreign purchases of U.S. Treasury securities significantly contributed to the decline in excess returns on long-term bonds between 1995 and 2008. We run forecasting...

En este arti?culo se investiga el impacto de los controles a la entrada de capitales en la volatilidad de la tasa de cambio y si estos ayudaron a aislar al pai?s de los choques externos. Se examina la experiencia colombiana en el periodo mayo 2007 a junio 2008, cuando el Banco Central utilizo?...

How far to go – and to remain – in the direction of highly expansionary monetary policy hinges on the balance of marginal benefits and costs of additional monetary easing and its expected evolution over time. This paper sketches a framework for assessing this balance and applies it to four...

Global current account imbalances have been one of the focal points of interest for policymakers during the last few years. Less attention has been paid, however, to the diverging current account balances of the individual euro area countries. In this paper we consider the dynamics of current...

This article analyzes the costs and benefits of the dollarization of the Chilean economy. The conclusion is that at the present time the costs are more than the benefits. one of the basic arguments is that the adjustment process of a dollarized economy to