Obstfeld, Maurice; Taylor, Alan M.; Shambaugh, Jay C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
for international reserves. In previous work, we have shown that international reserve demand can be rationalized by a … run combined with capital flight). Thus, simply looking at trade or short-term debt as motivations for reserve holdings is … before the current crisis, relative to their predicted holdings based on these financial motives, can significantly predict …