The bulk of International Finance Corporation (IFC) lending benefits companies from rich countries, and projects in countries with middle income. Large conglomerates such as Lidl or Mövenpick have been among its direct beneficiaries. This contrasts to some extent with the IFC's official...

In 1998 Rüdiger Dornbusch gave the Munich Lectures in Economics entitled International Financial Crises . The CES Academic Council awarded him the prize and title Distinguished CES Fellow for his outstanding work on the monetary theory of foreign trade.Rüdiger Dornbusch passed away on July 25,...

El propósito principal de este trabajo es el de revisar los factores y la dinámica que toma la internacionalización financiera, como también las acciones que debiera tomar un país para prepararse para maximizar los beneficios netos de esta integración. Finalmente, se evalúan también las...

We use stochastic optimal control-dynamic programming (DP) to derive the optimal foreign debt/net worth, consumption/net worth, current account/net worth, and endogenous growth rate in an open economy. Unlike the literature that uses an Intertemporal Budget Constraint (IBC) or the Maximum...