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Japanese banking problems: implications for Southeast Asia
During the late 1980s, Japanese banks substantially increased their global presence. In part the expansion was undertaken to help service Japanese companies that were increasingly involved in foreign direct investment. However, this expansion also can be attibuted to Japan's positio as the world's ...
Financial regulation and performance: cross-country evidence
The unprecedented number of costly bank failures throughout the world in the last two decades of the twentieth century has focused attention on the need to determine more appropriate ways to improve the performance of countries financial systems. Indeed, a substantial literature is already emerging ...
Transmisión de shocks y acoplamiento con mercados accionarios externos: efectos asimétricos y quiebre estructural
Analizamos la transmisión de shocks desde los principales mercados bursátiles desarrollados —Tokio, Nueva York, París y Frankfurt— hacia el mercado de Santiago, controlando por el de Sao Paulo. Nuestra investigación se concentra en los episodios de 2007 y 2008, donde la transmisión pasó desde los ...
Banking, financial integration, and international crises
During the past decade has enhanced market discipline but also caused greater strain in many emerging market economies' financial sectors, especially their banking systems. The potential benefits of financial integration, although large in the long run, may be outweighed in the short run if the ...
Global imbalances and external adjustment after the crisis
Over five years have passed since the most intense phase of the global financial crisis. As has been widely documented the pre-crisis period was characterized by increased dispersion in current account deficits and surpluses facilitated by a benign global financial environment characterized by low ...
Sobre el nivel de reservas internacionales de Chile: análisis a partir de enfoques complementarios
Este artículo analiza la evolución y el nivel de reservas internacionales de Chile a partir de metodologías complementarias. En primer lugar, construimos diversos indicadores de reservas internacionales sugeridos por la literatura para un conjunto de países avanzados y emergentes. Segundo, estimamos ...
Trilemmas and tradeoffs: living with financial globalization
This paper evaluates the capacity of emerging market economies (EMEs) to moderate the domestic impact of global financial and monetary forces through their own monetary policies. I present the case that those EMEs able to exploit a flexible exchange rate are far better positioned than those that devote ...
Financial stability, monetary policy, and Central Banking
The financial developments of the last decade have had a large impact on the range of risk diversification contracts available to investors. Based on these complex instruments, the investment possibility frontier was shifted outward and increasingly intricate networks were created. At the same time, ...
Monetary policy and global spillovers: mechanisms, effects and policy measures
Central Banks in emerging markets have been forced in the last decade to deal with spillovers from the crises in the United States and Europe and from the extraordinary measures respectively taken by the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. This volume provides a comprehensive study of the ...