The relatively successful management of cross-border capital flows has enabled the People's Republic of China (PRC) to achieve an extremely high average growth rate of more than 10 percent while keeping inflation under control. The management of cross-border capital flows is an indispensable...

During the past five years or so, most East Asian economies including the Philippines experienced a rising level of foreign exchange reserves and rapidly appreciating currencies both in nominal and real terms. One cause has been the resurgence of capital flows, which makes the issue of how to...

The relatively successful management of cross-border capital flows has enabled the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to achieve an extremely high average growth rate of more than 10 percent while keeping inflation under control. The management of cross-border capital flows is an indispensable...

This paper investigates the drivers of reserves in emerging markets (EMs) and small island (SIs) and develops an operational metric for estimating reserves in SIs taking into account their unique characteristics. It uses quantile regression techniques to allow the estimated factors driving...

Bulgarian Abstract: Областта на научните изследвания в статията е валутният пазар, докато обекта – факторите, които влияят на обменните курсове на водещите световни...

Bulgarian Abstract: Членството в ЕС е израз на политическа воля и национален и блоков консенсус. С развитието на съюза в посока разширяване до сегашния мащаб от ЕС-28...

The area of research in the paper is the USD as the leading currency on the foreign exchange market, while the research problem – the crude oil price volatility as a factor with an effect on the USD exchange rate. The analysis focuses on the proposition that there exists a correlation between...

The external current account deficit of the United States reached 6.5% of GDP in 2006, the largest deficit in more than fifty years. Some observers have argued that this situation could be sustained indefinitely. Most analysts, however, believe that the external deficit is unsustainable and that...

The paper proposes a unified framework to study the dynamics of net foreign assets and exchange rate movements. We show that deteriorations in a country's net exports or net foreign asset position have to be matched either by future net export growth (trade adjustment channel) or by future...

Partly reflecting structural advantages such a liquidity and strong investor protection, foreigners have built up extremely large positions in U.S. (as well as other dollar-denominated) financial assets. This paper describes the impact on global wealth of an unanticipated shock to U.S. financial...