We review the debate on the association of financial globalization with inequality. We show that the within country distributional impact of capital account liberalization is context specific and that different types of flows have different distributional effects. Their overall impact depends on...

We review the debate on the association of financial globalization with inequality. We show that the within-country distributional impact of capital account liberalization is context specific and that different types of flows have different distributional effects. Their overall impact depends on...

"Alexander Swoboda is one of the originators of the bipolar view that capital mobility creates pressure for countries to abandon intermediate exchange rate arrangements in favor of greater flexibility and harder pegs. This paper takes another look at the evidence for this hypothesis using two...

I. Background. 1 Introduction -- 2 A century of capital flows -- II. Capital account liberalization. 3 Capital account liberalization : what do the cross-country studies tell us? -- 4 When does capital account liberalization help more than it hurts? with Carlos Arteta and Charles Wyplosz -- III....