This paper analyzes the joint behavior of international capital flows by foreign and domestic agents-gross capital flows-over the business cycle and during financial crises. The authors show that gross capital flows are very large and volatile, especially relative to net capital flows. When...

We show that a model with imperfectly forecastable changes in future productivity and an occasionally binding collateral constraint can match a set of stylized facts about "sudden stop" events. "Good" news about future productivity raises leverage during times of expansion, increasing the...