The objective of this thesis is to investigate the potential contribution of transnational corporations (TNC) to the upgrading of systems of innovation in late-industrialising countries. This study looks specifically at TNC-affiliierter in Thailand’s manufacturing sector and compares them with...

This study addresses the potential trade-off between inflation and exchange rate targeting in former transition countries, which now may be labeled emerging market economies and which prepare for entry into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Among this group of countries, some implemented...

Contributed Paper prepared for presentation at the International Association of Agricultural Economists Conference, Beijing, China, August 16-22, 2009

The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...

This paper presents a tool to detect the accumulation of risks in emerging market economies based on a synthetic index of 'vulnerability' for three different types of crisis (sovereign, currency and banking crises). To build the index we fi rst use a signalling approach (Auroc) to preselect the...

Este documento ocasional presenta un marco sencillo, transparente e independiente de modelos para supervisar la acumulación de vulnerabilidades en las economías emergentes que puedan llegar a afectar a la estabilidad financiera de España, a través de vínculos —bien financieros, bien de...

Las economías emergentes con metas de inflación (MI) se enfrentan a un dilema entre cumplir las condiciones teóricas de una «MI estricta», lo que implica un tipo de cambio totalmente flexible, o seguir una gestión más activa de su moneda («MI flexible»), lo que supone implementar...