Three of the most important recent facts in global macroeconomics - the sustained rise in the US current account deficit, the stubborn decline in long run real rates, and the rise in the share of US assets in global portfolio - appear as anomalies from the perspective of conventional wisdom and...

Three of the most important recent facts in global macroeconomics — the sustained rise in the US current account deficit, the stubborn decline in long run real rates, and the rise in the share of US assets in global portfolio — appear as anomalies from the perspective of...

Three of the most important recent facts in global macroeconomics - the sustained rise in the US current account deficit, the stubborn decline in long run real rates, and the rise in the share of US assets in global portfolio - appear as anomalies from the perspective of conventional wisdom and...

This paper broadens the scope of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) models by deriving a gravity equation for foreign re-investment. Re-investments in foreign subsidiaries are an equally frequent and unstudied phenomenon in international economics. However, previous empirical studies estimate a...

This paper evaluates the importance of an economy's financial development in determining the effect of exchange rate volatility on foreign direct investment (FDI) for a panel of 39 emerging economies over 35 years. Results show that the impact of exchange rate volatility on FDI in economies with...