This article investigates the effects of macroeconomic policy (monetary and fiscal) on output growth during financial crises characterized by a sudden stop" in net capital inflows in developing and emerging market economies. We investigate 83 sudden stop crises in 77 countries over 1982-2003...

With the global crisis, the policy stance around the world has been shaken by massive government and central bank efforts to prevent the meltdown of markets, banks, and the economy. Fiscal packages, in varied sizes, have been adopted throughout the world after years of proclaimed fiscal...

Europe's banking system has been in a state of systemic fragility since 2007-08. The current phase is marked by a sequence of interactions between sovereign problems and banking problems, resulting in gradual contagion to more countriesand more asset classes. The banking and sovereign crises are...

In this overview we try to explain, first, why funds continued to flow towards emerging economies while fundamentals in host countries had been deteriorating before the Asian crisis (rising external deficit, with a significant liquid component appreciating exchange rates; low capital formation,...

The collapse of the American financial system following the sub-prime bubble and the ensuing global financial crisis have shown the fallacy of market fundamentalism. There is a now an urgent need to return to a more balanced view: modern capitalist economies are resilient precisely because they...

Senior Non-Resident Fellow Jürgen von Hagen offers his recommendations for the proper monetary policy to lead the eurozone out of the crisis. He argues that the tentative recovery in the euro area indicates that both monetary and fiscal policy can be normalised soon. However, because delaying...

Die am Finanzmarkt über Jahre geläufige Metapher vom Ende des Zyklus, die als Rechtfertigung für die beispiellosen Aktienkursniveaus Ende der 1990er Jahre herhalten musste, erwies sich als Schimäre. Wie konnte es zu diesen Übertreibungen an den Aktienmärkten kommen? Welche Rolle kommt der...