Reversals in capital inflows can have severe economic consequences. This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model to analyse the effect on interest rates, asset prices, investment, consumption, output, the exchange rate and the current account of a shift in portfolio preferences of...

We decompose the correlation between relative consumption and the real exchange rate into its dynamic components at different frequencies. Using multivariate spectral analysis techniques we show that, at odds with a high degree of risk-sharing, in most OECD countries the dynamic correlation...

Accounting for the pervasive evidence of limited international risk sharing is an important hurdle for open-economy models, especially when these are adopted in the analysis of policy trade-offs likely to be affected by imperfections in financial markets. Key to the literature is the evidence,...

Current account imbalances and their sustainability are among the most debated international policy issues. Through the recently designed External Balance Assessment methodology (EBA), the IMF estimates the impact of several countries' fundamentals and policies on their current account balance,...

Whether cross-border financial market integration has raised global insurance, is still a controversial issue in the literature. If this is so, what should we observe in the data? The insurance literature emphasizes that efficient risk-sharing requires financial markets to channel resources to...

Este trabajo pretende identificar en qué medida el reciente ajuste de la balanza por cuenta corriente española se debe a factores de naturaleza transitoria. A tal fin, consideramos la metodología del EBA (External Balance Assessment) propuesta por el Fondo Monetario Internacional, pero...

Motivación En las últimas décadas, se ha incrementado la dependencia de la Unión Europea (UE) y de España con respecto a terceros países en la importación de productos energéticos. Dada la relevancia de dichos productos en las cadenas de producción, esta dependencia puede constituir una...