Sovereign external assets (SEAs) comprise foreign exchange reserves and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). The global stock of reserves reached 7 $trn in the second quarter of 2008, but data on SWF are rather elusive. Our estimation puts the SWFs at around 2,5 $trn dollars by 2007 and in the last...

Reversiones en los flujos de capital pueden comportar graves consecuencias económicas. Este artículo desarrolla un modelo dinámico de equilibrio general para analizar el efecto sobre tasas de interés, precios de los activos, inversión, consumo, producción, tipo de cambio y cuenta corriente...

Los desequilibrios del saldo por cuenta corriente y su sostenibilidad están entre los temas de política internacional más debatidos. Mediante una metodología recientemente diseñada —external balance assessment (EBA)—, el FMI estima el impacto sobre el saldo por cuenta corriente de sus...

Este trabajo pretende identificar en qué medida el reciente ajuste de la balanza por cuenta corriente española se debe a factores de naturaleza transitoria. A tal fin, consideramos la metodología del EBA (External Balance Assessment) propuesta por el Fondo Monetario Internacional, pero...

Después de la crisis reciente, se ha observado una reducción en los desequilibrios globales de los saldos por cuenta corriente («desequilibrios en términos de flujo»). Sin embargo, los desequilibrios globales medidos en términos de los activos externos netos de los países...

Since the start of the financial crisis, various forms of securitization have been criticized for causing the problems experienced. The amount of Asset Backed Commercial Paper outstanding fell drastically in the middle of 2007 drawing our attention to this market. Our study focuses on the use of...

The availability of a unique data set of financially distressed firms enabled this study to apply the dynamic capital structure adjustment model to a study of capital structure. In addition, the factors driving capital structure adjustment of financially distressed and of healthy firms were...

The paper measures the U.S. Farm Credit System’s technical efficiency from 2000 to 2009 using a stochastic frontier production function model with quarterly unbalanced panel data. The paper's results suggest that the FCS has not efficiently utilized their inputs. On an average, the system...

The role played by monetary policy in creating the conditions that culminated in the current crisis and the failure of the Fed’s efforts to end the credit freeze in 2008 are critical components of the analysis needed as a backdrop for reform. This paper argues that the link between excess...

We recently experienced a global financial crisis so severe that only massive rescue operations by governments around the world prevented a total financial market meltdown and perhaps another global Great Depression. One necessary precondition for the crisis was the perverse, bonus-driven...