This paper studies income-redistribution effects from labor migration in a small open economy under alternative assumptions on the international mobility of capital. Our principal result is that induced international capital flows dampen or may even reverse redistribution effects. However, as...

One key focus of the on-going debate on the integration of international financial markets have been measures to lengthen the maturity of foreign debt. Short-term debt is typically considered to be volatile and thus a potential trigger of currency crises. In contrast to the vivid policy debate...

This paper proposes a new perspective on international capital flows and countries' long-run external asset position. Cross-sectional evidence for 84 developing countries shows that over the last three decades countries that have had on average higher volatility of output growth (1) accumulated...

Die asiatische Wirtschaftskrise ist ein Thema, mit dem sich mittlerweile zahlreiche Publikationen beschäftigt haben und noch beschäftigen. Das Spezifische des vorliegenden Bandes besteht darin, die Asienkrise als prominentes Beispiel einer regionalen Wirtschaftskrise anzusehen und nach...