This article analyzes the historical patterns of foreign investment in Latin America and the recent Mexican financial crisis in order to examine the appropriate form of foreign investment in developing countries. It argues that these nations should increase foreign investment flows into their...

International capital flows to developing countries have taken on considerable policy importance in recent years. There is disagreement, however, about whether financial capital mobility has become so high that developing countries have little ability to sterilize capital flows. This paper...

For Matías Vernengo and Esteban Pérez Caldentey (2020), the MMT literature overemphasizes the choice of the exchange rate regime and the relevance of a flexible exchange rate regime, as well as the ultimate effect of that choice upon the policy space. In addition, they argue that the role of...