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Few months after the onset of the crisis, the flight to safe assets at world level benefited the US treasuries, while the financial deleveraging favored the US dollar. Once the economic and market conditions return to normal, we will see a reversal of these trends (i.e., a weakened dollar and an...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine empirical characteristics of two commonly mentioned expressions of international financial crisis, “sudden stops” and currency crises. Design/methodology/approach – Sudden stop and currency crisis events are identified and empirical...
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Financial flows to East Asia have changed markedly in size and composition over the last decade. Foreign direct investment now dominates capital inflows with new foreign bank lending and portfolio investment remaining subdued. Foreign direct investment to China has grown rapidly since the early...
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Deutsche Anleger halten einen beträchtlichen Teil ihres Vermögens direkt oder indirekt im Ausland. Während der Finanzkrise sind in vielen Ländern die Preise von Vermögenswerten (zum Teil drastisch) gesunken. Dies betraf auch deutsche Anleger. Es ist allerdings schwierig, ihre...
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Seit der Jahrtausendwende haben sich weltweit große und vor allem anhaltende Leistungsbilanzsalden aufgebaut. Fortgeschrittene Volkswirtschaften mit einem relativ hohen Industrieanteil verzeichnen in einem stärkeren Ausmaß Leistungsbilanzüberschüsse. Dies liegt auch daran, dass der...
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Die deutsche Wirtschaft und vor allem die Investitionsgüterhersteller profitieren in einem besonderen Maß von dem Investitionsboom, der in den ölreichen Ländern seit gut einer Dekade stattfindet. Die Ölländer nutzen einen Teil ihrer Einnahmen, um damit die Kapitalbildung in ihren Ländern...
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Using the framework of a dynamic intertemporal optimization model of an open economy, it is shown that the long-run investment-saving correlation follows directly from the economy’s dynamic budget constraint and this does not depend on the degree of international capital mobility. Therefore,...
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This paper makes three contributions: First, I construct annual time series of gross domestic investment and national saving in the U.S. for the 1897–1949 period using historical component series. I compare the qualitative and quantitative properties of the newly constructed series with the...
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This paper first shows that capital inflows to and outflows from financial centers were disproportionately affected by the global financial crisis. Switzerland was no exception. The paper then identifies waves of capital flows to and from Switzerland from 2000:Q1 to 2014:Q2 by using a simple...
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