This paper analyzes the determinants and implications for financial stability of the mix of international banks' claims countries receive. In particular, we distinguish between local claims, extended by international banks through their affiliates in a host (or claim recipient) country, and...

This paper builds upon the empirical literature on the macroeconomic impact of real exchange rate depreciations for a sample of 27 emerging economies. We find that real exchange rate depreciations tend to increase a country's risk premium. This effect is neither linear nor symmetric: large real...

El nuevo Marco de Basilea II será importante para los países emergentes pues una buena parte de ellos ha declarado tener intención de introducir dicho Marco en un futuro más o menos cercano y los bancos internacionales que operan en muchos de estas economías estarán sujetos al nuevo Marco...

The paper uses the P-STAR model to analyze Spanish prices from 1970 to 1996, adding the foreign price gap to the standard domestic definition of the P-STAR model (the domestic price gap) to assess the role German price movements played in Spanish inflation. The domestic price gap turns out to be...

We analyze empirically whether the emergence of China as a large recipient of FDI has affected the amount of FDI received by Latin American countries.

In this paper we explore empirically a long-standing question in the literature on finance for growth, namely whether the financial structure ?in terms of the size of the banking system relative to the capital markets? matters for economic growth. We build upon the existing literature by...