"We identify incentives generated by the Bretton Woods II system that may have contributed to the sub-prime liquidity crisis now working its way through the international monetary system. We then evaluate the persistent conjecture that the liquidity crisis is or will become a balance of payments...

We identify incentives generated by the Bretton Woods II system that may have contributed to the sub-prime liquidity crisis now working its way through the international monetary system. We then evaluate the persistent conjecture that the liquidity crisis is or will become a balance of payments...

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between the real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affects economic development in emerging market economies...

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to examine the differences in the impact of financial stress in advanced and emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach The authors employ a panel vector autoregression model (PVAR) for a comparative analysis of the relationship between financial stress,...