The rise of China has prompted US geostrategic thinkers over the past decade to talk about the degree to which another "world war" is inevitable, and has also contributed to growing accusations that China is "imperialist." It will be argued that it is possible to accuse China of "imperialism"...

The performance of a reserve requirement rule combined with foreign exchange intervention under the capital outflow shock is studied in a dynamic stochastic model of a small open economy. The model features a two-pillar toolkit of the monetary and macroprudential policies involving a hybrid...

Foreign portfolio investment is threatened by the risk of default and repudiation, while direct foreign investment is threatened by the risk of expropriation. These two contractual forms of investment can differ substantially in: (1) the amount of capital they can transfer from abroad to...

This paper is a theoretical investigation of international lending andborrowing in the context of a general equilibrium model in which nationalproductivities are subject to random fluctuations and rates of timepreference differ among countries. International capital flows arise fromthe efforts...