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countries make with respect to the trilemma: exchange rate stability, monetary independence, and capital account openness, we … investigate the normative questions pertaining to the trilemma, that is, how the policy choices among the three trilemma policies …
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We develop a methodology that intuitively characterizes the choices countries have made with respect to the trilemma … international reserve accumulation. The evolution of our trilemma indexes illustrates that, after the early 1990s, industrialized … trilemma variable should be traded-off with a drop of the weighted sum of the other two. The second part of the paper deals …
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We develop a methodology that intuitively characterizes the choices countries have made with respect to the trilemma … international reserve accumulation. The evolution of our 'trilemma indexes' illustrates that, after the early 1990s, industrialized … trilemma variable should be traded-off with a drop of the weighted sum of the other two. The second part of the paper deals …
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We propose a small open economy model where agents borrow internationally and invest in liquid foreign assets to insure against liquidity shocks, which temporarily shut out the economy of short-term credit markets. Due to the presence of a pecuniary externality individual agents borrow too much...
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Financial globalization had a rocky start in emerging economies hit by Sudden Stops. Foreign reserves have grown very rapidly since then, as if those countries were practicing a New Mercantilism that views foreign reserves as a war-chest for defense against Sudden Stops. This paper conducts a...
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While substantial empirical research has evaluated the question of whether capital account openness promotes economic growth, this paper finds empirical evidence for cases where the opposite is true--that a policy of capital controls can promote economic growth, when combined with a policy of...
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Halving the US current account deficit as a share of GDP is likely to impose a burden of $2,350 per capita on the United States, which explains why US policymakers want to postpone adjustment. The rest of the world relies on the economic stimulus of a widening US external deficit, which explains...
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