The case for capital account liberalization has been the centre of outgoing debate. This paper discusses both the short term and longer term flows (FDI). This paper is divided into 5 sections. Section 1 presents the claims of neoclassical economists who believe that the case for free trade is...

The paper investigates the relationship between external debt and economic growth, focusing on the role played by the policy and institutional framework. Results for a panel of 114 developing countries show that the debt-growth nexus depends on institutions and policies. The Debt-Laffer curve...

We use panel probit models with unobserved heterogeneity, state-dependence and serially correlated errors in order to analyze the determinants and the dynamics of current-account reversals for a panel of developing and emerging countries. The likelihood-based inference of these models requires...