Este documento ocasional resume los avances recientes en el análisis teórico de las causas de la inestabilidad fi nanciera, de sus consecuencias macroeconómicas, y sus implicaciones acerca del posible papel de la política macroprudencial. En primer lugar, se analiza cómo se propagan las...

Financialization is a process whereby financial markets, financial institutions and financial elites gain greater influence over economic policy and economic outcomes. Financialization transforms the functioning of economic system at both the macro and micro levels. Its principal impacts are to...

This dissertation consists of three independent essays. The first essay, “Long Waves and Short Cycles in a Model of Endogenous Financial Fragility,” presents a stock flow consistent macroeconomic model in which financial fragility in firm and household sectors evolves endogenously through...

Purpose – This study examines the complex financial and reporting regulation that will oversee and monitor the veracity of newly commoditised carbon financial products traded in the proposed cap and trade Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), the government’s centrepiece of a...

This Article, a sequel to earlier articles by the author on financial regulation and global finance, retrieves and updates J. M. Keynes’s original International Clearing Union plan for what ultimately became the International Monetary Fund (“IMF,” “Fund”).  Its motives are not...

This paper focuses on market discipline as a necessary condition to preserve the signaling content of balance sheet indicators and market prices as macroprudential tools. It argues that market discipline enhances the information content of market prices by reflecting the expected private cost of...

Tanto los desequilibrios mundiales como la (des)regulación de los mercados fi nancieros destacan como posibles causas de la crisis fi nanciera mundial. En este documento se investiga la posible relación entre ambos fenómenos ; concretamente, analizamos la relación entra la (des)regulación...

This paper proposes a low cost alternative to the large bailout packages that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has organized to address financial crises. The IMF would act as a lender of last resort. Faced with an unsustainable debt burden, a government would declare default. It would...

This paper examines the surprising performance of the Argentine stock market in the midst of the country’s most recent financial crisis and the role played by ADRs in Argentine capital flight. Although Argentine investors were subject to capital controls, they were able to purchase stocks with...

The recent episodes of financial turmoil in Mexico, East Asia, Russia, Brazil, and Argentina are often dubbed financial crises. However, the severe downturns in equity markets, abrupt currency devaluations, and massive capital flight that characterize these events can still be deemed compatible...