International Capital Flows - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Capital Flows write by Martin Feldstein. This book was released on 2007-12-01. International Capital Flows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent changes in technology, along with the opening up of many regions previously closed to investment, have led to explosive growth in the international movement of capital. Flows from foreign direct investment and debt and equity financing can bring countries substantial gains by augmenting local savings and by improving technology and incentives. Investing companies acquire market access, lower cost inputs, and opportunities for profitable introductions of production methods in the countries where they invest. But, as was underscored recently by the economic and financial crises in several Asian countries, capital flows can also bring risks. Although there is no simple explanation of the currency crisis in Asia, it is clear that fixed exchange rates and chronic deficits increased the likelihood of a breakdown. Similarly, during the 1970s, the United States and other industrial countries loaned OPEC surpluses to borrowers in Latin America. But when the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates to control soaring inflation, the result was a widespread debt moratorium in Latin America as many countries throughout the region struggled to pay the high interest on their foreign loans. International Capital Flows contains recent work by eminent scholars and practitioners on the experience of capital flows to Latin America, Asia, and eastern Europe. These papers discuss the role of banks, equity markets, and foreign direct investment in international capital flows, and the risks that investors and others face with these transactions. By focusing on capital flows' productivity and determinants, and the policy issues they raise, this collection is a valuable resource for economists, policymakers, and financial market participants.
Capital Flows and Crises
Capital Flows and Crises - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capital Flows and Crises write by Barry J. Eichengreen. This book was released on 2004. Capital Flows and Crises available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An analysis of the connections between capital flows and financial crises as well as between capital flows and economic growth.
Behind the Numbers
Behind the Numbers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Behind the Numbers write by National Research Council. This book was released on 1992-02-01. Behind the Numbers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. America's international economic decisions rest to a large degree on the information available to policymakers. Yet the quality of international trade and financial data is in serious doubt. This book reveals how our systems for collecting and analyzing trade data have fallen behind the times-and presents recommendations for new approaches to accuracy and usefulness of these economic data. The volume traces the burgeoning use of international economic data by public and private analysts at a time when the United States is becoming increasingly integrated into the world economy. It also points out problems of capturing new transactions, comparing data from different sources, limited access to the data, and more. This is the first volume to review all three types of U.S. international data-merchandise trade, international services transactions, and capital flows. Highlights include: Specific steps for U.S. agencies to take. Special analyses on improving the accuracy of merchandise trade data, filling data gaps on the fast-growing international services transactions, and understanding structural changes in world capital markets. Comments, complaints, and suggestions from an original survey of more than 100 key users of trade data. This practical volume will be invaluable to policymakers, government officials, business executives, economists, statisticians, and researchers.
International Capital Flows
International Capital Flows - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Capital Flows write by Punam Chuhan. This book was released on 1996. International Capital Flows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
International Capital Flow Pressures
International Capital Flow Pressures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Capital Flow Pressures write by Ms.Linda S. Goldberg. This book was released on 2018-02-16. International Capital Flow Pressures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper presents a new measure of capital flow pressures in the form of a recast Exchange Market Pressure index. The measure captures pressures that materialize in actual international capital flows as well as pressures that result in exchange rate adjustments. The formulation is theory-based, relying on balance of payments equilibrium conditions and international asset portfolio considerations. Based on the modified exchange market pressure index, the paper also proposes the Global Risk Response Index, which reflects the country-specific sensitivity of capital flow pressures to measures of global risk aversion. For a large sample of countries over time, we demonstrate time variation in the effects of global risk on exchange market pressures, the evolving importance of the global factor across types of countries, and the changing risk-on or risk-off status of currencies.