Ausgelöst durch das Zusammentreffen niedriger Zinsen in reichen Ländern und einem hohen Finanzierungsbedarf für Infrastruktur in vielen ärmeren Ländern befindet sich die Verschuldung der Länder des Globalen Südens seit Jahren auf einem dramatisch hohen Niveau. Hohe Schuldendienstzahlungen...

Objective - This study examines the relation between stock market capitalization and international financial integration for 23 developing countries during 1996 - 2018.Methodology/Technique - By using recently developed econometric panel techniques. The present paper takes into consideration...

Using developing countries in Europe for context, this study examines the complex relationship between financial crises and financial integration. We use panel data comprising 37 countries in Europe, including Iceland, Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey, and Russia from 2000-2019 and the general method of...

Since Friedman (1953), an advantage often attributed to flexible exchange rate regimes over fixed regimes is their ability to insulate more effectively the economy against real shocks. I use a post-Bretton Woods sample (1973-96) of seventy-five developing countries to assess whether the...

The choice of an exchange-rate regime is considered by integrating the determinants of multinational firms locations. We consider the case of a risk-adverse multinational firm which contemplates relocating two alternative foreign locations in order to re-export. We explicit the trade-off between...

This study focuses on identifying the main factors that influenced country-specific and aggregate demand for IMF concessional financing between 1986 and 2018 and makes within-period and out-of-period forecasts. We find that the external debt level, inflation, and real effective exchange rate are...

This paper empirically analyzes how exchange rate policy affects the issuance and pricing of international bonds for developing countries. We find that countries with less flexible exchange rate regimes pay higher sovereign bond spreads and are less likely to issue bonds. Quantitatively,...

This work is aiming primarily at discussing the thesis that the search for new currency systems in World Economy is not the reason but the result of production crisis. The approach initiated with the three works of Michael Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau and Peter Garber which are carried out...

Since Friedman (1953), an advantage often attributed to flexible exchange rate regimes over fixed regimes is their ability to insulate more effectively the economy against real shocks. I use a post-Bretton Woods sample (1973-96) of seventy-five developing countries to assess whether the...

Is the degree of dollarization important to determine the pass-through between nominal exchange rate depreciation and inflation? The common view in the literature is that countries with higher dollarization exhibit higher pass-through coefficients. In our study we qualify this common view. Using...