This working paper was written by Yin-wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz), Kon S. Lai (California State University, Los Angeles) and Michael Bergman (Lund University).The conventional view, as expounded by sticky-price models, is that price adjustment determines the PPP reversion...

This occasional paper was written by Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University).A widespread opinion before the credit crisis of 2007-8 was that securitization enhances financialstability by dispersing credit risk. After the credit crisis, securitization was blamed for allowing the“hot potato” of...

This occasional paper was written by Stephen Grenville (Lowy Institute for International Policy, Australian National University and Asian Development Bank Institute).Capital flows were at the heart of the Asian Crisis of 1997-8. The inflows were too large before the crisis, and the reversals...

This working paper is written by Peter Hordahl (Bank for International Settlements) and Giorgio Valente (Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research).We study the relationship between international bond flows and exchange rate returns for a panel of emerging market economies (EMEs)....