Showing 1 - 10 of 3,070
We examine the relationship between investment and saving for a cross section of European countries before and during … the euro crisis. Investment is positively and significantly related to saving, and this relationship is stronger during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079084
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869932
In this paper, we examine theoretically how corporate saving in emerging markets is contributing to global rebalancing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010376442
need for borrowers to pay interest (or dividends) and eventually to be able to repay. Thus savings must lead to investment …, or unwise (“unfruitful”) investment, such as excessive housing construction, the result will be a crisis. In this way the … to fruitful investment in other countries, both in the United States and in developing countries. Hence a crisis was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121877
In contrast to the period prior to the 1997/98 Asian financial crisis, emerging East Asia today is a region with excess savings, particularly corporate savings. Beginning in the mid-2000s, liquidity was further amplified by massive capital flows, particularly bank-led flows, and subsequently by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011588
The global imbalances of the 2000s and the recent global financial crisis are intimately connected. Both originate in the combination of economic policies adopted by the two key economies, the US and China. Global financial markets served as a transmission belt, both during the boom as during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144334
This study examines the effects of capital account restrictions on capital flows in nine Asian economies over the period 1995-2005 using panel regressions with fixed effects. The results show that capital controls significantly affect capital flows when such flows are disaggregated by asset type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528529
In March 2020, the Federal Reserve eased the terms on its standing swap lines in collaboration with other central banks, reactivated temporary swap agreements, and then introduced the new Foreign and International Monetary Authorities (FIMA) Repo Facility. We provide new evidence on how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797880
This paper investigates the factors explaining exchange market pressures (EMP) and the hoarding and use of international reserves (IR) by emerging markets during the 2000s, as the Great Moderation turned to the 2008-9 global crisis and great recession. According to our results, both financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688979
The present paper examines the degree of comovement of gross capital inflows, which is a highly sensitive issue for policy makers. We estimate a dynamic hierarchical factor model that is able to decompose inflows in a sample of 47 economies into (i) a global factor common to all types of flows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534030