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This essay has four objectives. The first is to document the current episode of capital inflows to Latin America based on data for ten Latin American countries. 6 The second is to compare the Latin American experience with that of a number of Asian countries that have also been the recipients of sizable capital inflows and examine to what extent the nature of the capital inflows and.

What floating exchange rates made possible was the across-the-board liberalization of cross-border capital flows which, growing ever higher relative to real economy transactions, have turned the.

Economic development - Economic development - Developing countries and debt: After World War II it was thought that developing countries would require foreign aid in their early stages of development. This aid would supplement the capital created by domestic savings, permitting a higher rate of investment and thus stimulating growth. It was expected that their reliance on official sources of.

This thesis is composed of two parts. Part I contains two essays on capital flows and, in particular, on the phenomenon of global imbalances. Part II includes an essay on the determination of exchange rates. In the first part, I provide a framework to analyse the trade imbalances between the United States and East Asian countries. In a two-country OLG model with production, I investigate the.

International finance has exploded during the 1990s as countries, particularly in the developing world, have bowed to the conventional wisdom that they should remove barriers to these flows. The flood of capital into countries like Mexico, while fueling economic growth for a period of time, has done little to improve the lives of the majority.

Free capital mobility may seem desirable, though, in reality it comes at a cost. Given the exchange rate, developing countries or emerging market economies tend to acquire more assets by purchasing a massive amount of goods and services than the rest of the world. This is due to several reasons. These countries may not be on par in terms of.

In commodity-exporting economies, this means, moreover, that capital flows reinforce rather than mitigate the commodity price cycle. There is overwhelming evidence that capital flows to emerging and developing countries are pro-cyclical and have become one of the major determinants—and in many cases the major determinant—of business cycles. 2.

Financial Globalization: Gain and Pain for Developing Countries. exchange rates, limited capital mobility, and autono-mous monetary policies. As Mundell (2000) argues, the 1970s witnessed the beginning of a new era in the international finan- cial system. As a result of the oil shock and the SERGIO L. SCHMUKLER The author is a senior economist in the development research group of the World.

Capital flows can be fickle, and after years of inflows from foreign investors, sentiments can suddenly shift and dollars are sucked out of an emerging market, driving down exchange rates.

This paper investigates the degree and the nature of exchange rate co-movements between the Renminbi and a set of seven East Asian currencies by estimating Markov switching models with regime-dependent correlations and time-varying transition probabilities. These models have several advantages. First, exchange rate co-movements can vary across different depreciation and appreciation regimes.

Enhancing the employment impact of globalization in the rural economy poses a serious challenge both in a national and in an international context (as the various discussions around the Doha development round, especially those on agriculture, have demonstrated). In a national context, the rural and agriculture sector still provides the framework for many countries to confront poverty and.

The effectiveness of foreign exchange intervention in emerging market countries1 Piti Disyatat and Gabriele Galati 1. Introduction This paper attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of what is known about the effectiveness of foreign exchange intervention in emerging market countries. This is done in two steps. First, an.