International financial linkages, particularly through global bank flows, generate important questions about the … autonomy oriented toward, and effective at, achieving domestic goals. I argue that global banking entails some features that … are distinct from the broad issues of capital market openness captured in existing studies. In principle, if global banks …

for climate research and other studies at global, regional and country level. Based on the global income distribution and … poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future …

Global banks played a significant role in transmitting the 2007-09 financial crisis to emerging-market economies. We …

strategies. These flows are a form of global interdependence previously unexplored in the literature on international shock …