This paper explores the role of capital flows and exchange rate dynamics in shaping the global economy's adjustment in a liquidity trap. Using a multi-country model with nominal rigidities, we shed light on the global adjustment since the Great Recession, a period when many advanced economies...

The narrative as well as the analysis of global imbalances in the existing literature are incomplete without the part of the story that relates to the surge in capital flows experienced by the emerging economies. Such analysis disregards the implications of capital flows on their domestic...

Motivated by debates surrounding international capital flows during the Great Recession, we conduct a positive and normative analysis of capital flows when a region of the global economy experiences a liquidity trap. Capital flows reduce inefficient output fluctuations in this region by inducing...

Financial crises preceded by nontradable consumption booms are characterized by sharper real exchange rate depreciation and deeper economic contractions. We show that a small open economy model of Sudden Stops under non-homothetic preferences can rationalize the danger of credit-fueled...

This paper examines how international investors evaluate the change in the risk-return profile often Central and Eastern European countries that recently entered the European Union (EU). By supplementing international investment position data provided by IMF’s International Financial...