We analyze real interest rate convergence among six industrialized countries in between 1975M1-2011M3 within a multi-country framework by means of a dynamic latent factor model. The real interest rates are decomposed into permanent and transitory factors, and country-specific components....

Introduction : global market integration, financial crises and policy imperatives / Geoffrey R.D. Underhill and Xiaoke Zhang -- Reform of the international financial architecture : what has been written? / Jonathan Story -- Costs and benefits of financial globalisation : concepts, evidence and...

Introduction : global market integration, financial crises and policy imperatives / Geoffrey R. D. Underhill and Xiaoke Zhang -- Reform of the international financial architecture : what has been written? / Jonathan Story -- Costs and benefits of financial globalisation : concepts, evidence and...