This book scrutinizes global financial flows and stocks, both financial assets and liabilities and their impact on the global balance of economic power, especially as they affect the largest and fastest-growing countries in both the developed and the developing world. It shows how financial...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Global financial flows, stocks, economic power, and financial sustainability under the current structure of global finance -- Chapter 2. Cross-country analysis of financial assets and liabilities: 2005-2017 -- Chapter 3. Changes in economic power: Global Economic growth...

The financial crisis of 2007-2008 and its aftermath have resulted in the role of money and finance within the global economy becoming the subject of considerable debate in public, policy, and media circles. Global Finance is a timely look at the contemporary international financial environment,...

This paper documents the evolution of international financial integration since the global financial crisis using an updated dataset on external assets and liabilities, covering over 210 economies for the period 1970-2015. It finds that the growth in cross-border positions in relation to world...

This paper analyzes the causes of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. The analysis is conducted on a cross-section of 85 countries. It is found that more financially integrated countries do not seem to...