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capital flows accounting framework consisting of the U.S., Western Europe, and the Rest of the World, is developed to identify … international capital flows. Counterfactual analyses show world output would have been 0.6% higher had there been perfect capital … mobility, and that these impediments to capital mobility raised welfare substantially in the rest of the world and modestly in …
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While capital flows to emerging markets bring numerous benefits, they are also known to create macroeconomic imbalances (economic overheating, currency overvaluation) and increase financial vulnerabilities (domestic credit growth, bank leverage, foreign currency-denominated lending). But are all...
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While capital flows to emerging markets bring numerous benefits, they are also known to create macroeconomic imbalances (economic overheating, currency overvaluation) and increase financial vulnerabilities (domestic credit growth, bank leverage, foreign currency-denominated lending). But are all...
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On average, foreign corporations save a third of their local profits in the host country. While this is recorded as "Retained Earnings Foreign Direct Investment" (REFDI), macroeconomics has so far overlooked its particularities. This paper explores the aggregate economic properties of REFDI. It...
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This paper assembles a comprehensive sectoral capital flows dataset for 64 advanced and emerging economies from 2000-18. This includes direct, portfolio and other investments to and from five sectors: central banks (CB), general government (GG), banks (BKs), non-financial corporates (NFCs) and...
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This paper assembles a comprehensive sectoral capital flows dataset for 64 advanced and emerging economies from 2000-18, including direct, portfolio, and other investment to and from central banks (CB), general government (GG), banks (BKs), non-financial corporates (NFCs) and other financial...
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In a financially interconnected world, individual countries’ policy choices affect other economies and can become a …
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We examine the role of capital account policy pertaining to productivity growth and labor allocation at the sectoral level. Using panel data from 45 countries from 1985–2012, we find that capital controls combined with reserve accumulation — strategic capital account policy — contribute to...
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While substantial empirical research has evaluated the question of whether capital account openness promotes economic growth, this paper finds empirical evidence for cases where the opposite is true--that a policy of capital controls can promote economic growth, when combined with a policy of...
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The development of cryptocurrency technology has made it possible to transfer value securely and instantaneously without a third party intermediary such as a bank or financial institution. This is an exploratory analysis of where and why this technology has gained traction. In particular, I...
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