Sovereign debt crises do not need to be viral. Whether they are depends on the government's interaction with the private sector. The more open an economy, the less likely it is that a sovereign debt crisis will infect the domestic private sector. More importantly, the larger the government's...

This paper analyzes the conflicting explanations of the global imbalances’ pattern and the size of the US external deficit. In this document, it is argued that, far from being incompatible, the explanations suggested are part of a broader story. The drop of the US saving rate has played a...

Les 8 et 9 décembre 2011, une conférence sur les politiques budgétaire et monétaire à la suite de la crise financière a été organisée à Paris par la Banque de France en collaboration avec la Paris School of Economics, le Euro Area Business Cycle Network et The Economic Journal. Elle a...

La crise financière a durablement transformé l’environnement économique mondial et stimulé de nombreuses études sur ses causes et ses canaux de transmission, qui ont été présentées lors d’une conférence organisée par la Banque de France, PSE et le FMI.

La Banque de France, la revue American Economic Journal : Macroeconomics, l’École d’économie de Paris ainsi que les centres de recherche ECARES et CEPR ont organisé une conférence sur les enseignement macroéconomiques à tirer de la crise financière. Crise de la dette souveraine,...

The financial crisis lastingly transformed the global economic environment and raised much debate as to its causes and transmission channels. This conference, organised by the Banque de France, PSE and the IMF, provided an arena to present and discuss these issues.

This paper investigates the spread of what started as a crisis at the core of the global financial system to emerging economies. While emerging economies had exhibited some resilience through the early stages of the financial turmoil that began in the summer of 2007, they have been hit hard...

This Article examines the International Monetary Fund's recent efforts to play an assertive regulatory role with regard to global capital flows. There is a growing consensus among scholars and policymakers that states must carefully manage capital flows and coordinate their policies for doing...

This paper will propose a plan to reform international finance – the World Financial Authority (WFA) Plan. Under such a plan, the IMF and other existing international financial institutions would be reformed and coordinated around a newly created WFA. The WFA would have two core functions....

The increased mobility of capital of the last few decades creates new challenges for the macroeconomic policies of the nation-states. In this paper we analyse some of these challenges. Contrary to what is often alleged, increased capital mobility does not necessarily increase the need for...