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The implications of capital mobility for growth and stability are some of the most contentious and least understood contemporary issues in economics. In this book, Barry Eichengreen discusses historical, theoretical, empirical, and policy aspects of the effects, both positive and negative, of capital flows. He focuses on the connections between capital flows and crises as well as on those between capital flows and growth.
Eichengreen argues that international financial liberalization, like other forms of economic liberalization, can positively affect the efficiency of resource allocation and the rate of economic growth. But analyses of both recent and historical experience also show an undeniable association between capital mobility and crises, especially when domestic institutions are weak and the harmonization of capital account liberalization and other policy reforms is inadequate. In his conclusion, Eichengreen makes suggestions for policy design to maximize the benefits of international financial liberalization while minimizing the risks of financial instability.
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Capital Flows and Financial Crises (Council on Foreign Relations Book)
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Capital flows to the developing economies have long displayed a boom-and-bust pattern. Rarely has the cycle turned as abruptly as it did in the 1990s, however: surges in lending were followed by the Mexican peso crisis of 1994-95 and the sudden collapse of currencies in Asia in 1997. This volume maps a new and uncertain financial landscape, one in which volatile private capital flows and fragile banking systems produce sudden reversals of fortune for governments and economies. This environment creates dilemmas for both national policymakers who confront the "mixed blessing" of capital inflows and the international institutions that manage the recurrent crises.
The authors--leading economists and political scientists--examine private capital flows and their consequences in Latin America, Pacific Asia, and East Europe, placing current cycles of lending in historical perspective. National governments have used a variety of strategies to deal with capital-account instability. The authors evaluate those responses, prescribe new alternatives, and consider whether the new circumstances require novel international policies.
CONTRIBUTORS Gail Buyske, Independent Consultant, New York City Pablo Cabezas, New York University Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley Albert Fishlow, Council on Foreign Relations Miles Kahler, University of California, San Diego Rachel McCulloch, Brandeis University Sylvia Maxfield, Yale University Peter A. Petri, Brandeis University Carmen M. Reinhart, University of Maryland, College Park Vincent Raymond Reinhart, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Harvard University Dorothy M. Sobol, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Andres Velasco, New York University
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The emerging markets crisis that unfolded beginning in the summer of 1997 has catapulted the debate on capital inflows into emerging markets, and the boom and bust cycles that have accompanied these inflows, to the center of policy discussions. The present volume examines the patterns of private capital flows into emerging markets by placing them in historical perspective, and evaluates the policy responses that governments have used to deal with the problems associated with cross-border capital flows, and suggests policies that balance the risks and benefits from the ascendancy of financial markets and the market-based mode of governance. It is a timely contribution to the ongoing debate, and constitutes highly recommended reading for anyone who is interested in acquiring a grasp of the patterns in emerging markets financing, the ongoing policy debate, as well as the dilemmas that international capital flows continue to pose to emerging market recipients of these flows. The volume would have benefited from a capital markets perspective on financial crises as recent market dynamics have been crucially dependent on capital market factors such as risk management of banks. The papers were written in the early part of the recent crises, focusing on Thailand and in some cases Korea, but not including Russia's default in August 1998 and Brazil's recent devaluation. Kahler, however, does an excellent job in putting the papers together in one volume and writing an insightful overview tying the themes together. The chapters in this volume provide a good overview of the issues surrounding the inflows of capital to emerging markets and the policy conondrums they engender. While the focus is primarily macroeconomic and ignores some of the features of international financial markets that have characterized the recent emerging markets crisis, the wealth of theory and facts are important tools to anyone interested in understanding cross-border capital flows.
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Capital Flows and Financial Crises
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In this volume, a team of policymakers and academics from 14 different countries examine the challenges and options facing policymakers today. The book includes detailed anaysis of individual economies and the broad systematic issues.
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Capital Flows, Capital Controls, and Currency Crises: Latin America in the 1990s (Development and Inequality in the Market Economy)
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After a decade of financial isolation from world private capital markets following the external debt crisis of the early 1980s, Latin America became an effective magnet for private capital in the 1990s. Two major events, however, altered an otherwise positive picture for this region: the Mexican crisis of 1994-95 and the Asian crisis of 1997. This volume analyzes the return of private capital to Latin America and studies the main policy options available to economic authorities under these new circumstances.
Part 1 is dedicated to the study of capital account restrictions and the role of economic fundamentals. A theoretical chapter develops a model to determine whether a liberalization of capital outflows effectively promotes outflows or is more likely to attract inflows. Others empirically analyze the effectiveness of capital controls in Chile, and the role of economic fundamentals in the determination of capital inflows to Chile, Latin America, and developing countries overall.
Part 2 contains country studies of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and Mexico. Written by national economists of each country who have lived through the inflow and outflow episodes and carried out their own research on the subject, these studies provide the inside story for each country. They analyze the timing, size, and composition of capital inflows, their determinants, their impact on the domestic economies, and, in particular, the ways in which local economic authorities have reacted to the inflows and crises, and the effectiveness of these policies in changing the size and/or composition of capital inflows.
This volume will be of interest to scholars, policy-makers, students, and Latin American specialists investigating capital flows and capital controls in a fast-changing international environment.
Felipe Larraín B. is Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Economics, Universidad Católica de Chile.
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Financial Market Integration and International Capital Flows
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The widespread capital market liberalization has resulted in a massive surge in international capital flows and the development of a more integrated world financial system. At the same time, however, the volatility of capital flows has increased and the stability of this modern financial system has been called into question by a number of financial and currency crises.
In this volume the authors assess the behavior of international capital markets during this period, focusing on both the causes and the consequences of financial instability. They examine the origins of the Latin American and East Asian crises and the lessons that can be drawn from these, and they consider the proposals for reform of the international financial system which have followed.
This collection of papers, written by both academics and practitioners, is addressed both to specialists and to a wider audience, and will provide insight into an extremely important global development.
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International Capital Flows in Calm and Turbulent Times: The Need for New International Architecture (Development and Inequality in the Market Economy)
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International Capital Flows in Calm and Turbulent Times analyzes the financial crises of the late 1990s and draws attention to the type of lenders and investors that triggered and deepened the crises. It concentrates on institutional investors and banks and provides detailed analysis of the countries most affected by the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis as well as the Czech Republic and Brazil. It also suggests necessary international financial reforms to make crises less likely.
The book is unique in its scrutiny of the type of lenders and investors that triggered and deepened the crises, focusing particularly on institutional investors and banks; allocation of their assets; the criteria used in this process; and the impact of the nature of the investor on the volatility of different types of capital flow. It addresses such questions as: What determines or triggers massive changes in perceptions and sentiment by different investors and leaders? To what extent does contagion spread not just among countries but between actors? What are the policy implications of this analysis? The book concludes by examining the asymmetries in the financial architecture discussions and implementation and by offering policy proposals.
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Short-Term Capital Flows and Economic Crises (Wider Studies in Development Economics)
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The currency crises that engulfed East Asian economies in 1997 and Mexico in 1994 - and their high development costs - raise a serious concern about the net benefits for developing countries of large flows of potentially reversible short-term international capital. Written by senior policy-makers and academics, the contributions to this volume examine in depth the macroeconomic and other policy dilemmas confronting public authorities in the emerging economies as they deal with short-term capital movements, especially in the period before the outbreak of these crises. The studies are based on comparative case studies of key emerging economies. Valuable insights are also derived from contrasts between the East Asian, Latin American, African, and European experiences, between the financial and real effects of financial flows, and between private and public responsibilities in managing financial markets. The great value of the chapters in this volume is that they analytically identify the weaknesses in both domestic and international capital market regimes. The recommendations derived from this analysis apply to the development of financial markets in developing countries, the monitoring and regulation of mutual funds in source countries, and the future development of international capital markets. They will make an important contribution both to the discussion of national policies and of a new international financial architechture.
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The World's New Financial Landscape: Challenges for Economic Policy
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This book will be of particular relevance for readers interested in a thorough analysis of international capital flows, their determinants and their macroeconomic implications. It also provides information about the origines of international financial crisis and assess proposals to overcome and avoid financial crisis in the future.The book is an outcome of a conference held at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. The papers cover the track record of financial integration, the changing structure of financial markets and the implications for macroeconomics and growth. Particular emphasis is placed on the various financial crises of the 1990s and on proposals for a reform of the international financial system.
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What is Banking for Family Business? What's special about it? How does the Family Banker contribute to the creation of value for entrepreneur families? The book covers a wide spectrum of topics: it investigates the ways family bankers really work, the relations between private banking and corporate banking, the trends of the market in Europe and USA, the characteristics of family offices coming both from family and from banks and finally the best practices driven by private banking international houses. The book is based on a strong link between a rigorous methodological approach and the real world best practices of wealth management, thanks to a team of contributors formed by both academics and professionals coming from the areas of corporate banking and private banking.
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Life in the Balance: Procedural Safeguards in Capital Cases
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Fungi growth in the storage of cereal grain has led to serious losses of grain quality and quantity each year the world over. These fungi and moulds are capable of producing mycotoxins which accumulate in grains. This book contains reviews from 21 experts on the relationship between mould growth in grain and its effects as well as the accumulation of mycotoxins. Discussed are properties of "storage fungi" such as the water and temperature relationship, taxonomy and nomenclature aspects etc. New methods of storage allow for early detection of these mould growths. Significant attention is paid to
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Drying grain is necessary for proper storage, handling and processing; the methods used for drying grain have an important influence on quality and the overall economics of the process. This book provides all the tools needed for effective grain drying, inculding mathematical theory, tabulated data on the physical and thermal properties of grains, and more.
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