In the 1990s several emerging market economies such as Chile Mexico and a number of southeast Asian countries displayed episodes of peaking growth rates combined with increasing current account deficits and appreciating currencies which ended with abrupt reversions in capital flows and recessions. In ...

The papers that comprise the different chapters of this volume were presented in the XVII Annual Conference on Central Banking that took place at the Central Bank of Chile Santiago during November 14 and 15 2011. While the global economic environment has changed considerably from the end of 2011 to ...

La literatura reciente sobre las interrupciones súbitas de los flujos de capitales estudia las bruscas y variadas reversiones de la cuenta financiera que han experimentado muchas economías emergentes. El presente artículo argumenta que el comportamiento de los flujos brutos de capital aporta más ...

La inestabilidad macroeconómica y financiera en un contexto de metas de inflación plantea importantes desafíos a las economías emergentes. Aquí se analiza el caso particular de los flujos de capital hacia estas como una causa de dicha inestabilidad macroeconómica y financiera. Antes de la última crisis ...

La reciente integración financiera internacional se ha caracterizado por el incremento en las posiciones de activos y pasivos externos y una creciente relevancia de los efectos de valorización (ganancias o pérdidas de capital). En este trabajo evaluamos empíricamente las implicancias de stocks, flujos ...

Globalization has changed the way countries interact along several dimensions. Financial integration and its underpinnings are probably among the most important. Although cross-border capital flows and external debt have been closely monitored, until recently little was known about the stocks of foreign ...

The financial crises of the second half of the 1990s have led to renewed interest in the causes and consequences of international capital flows. Sudden stops, defined as large drops in net capital inflows, have received particular attention, given the collapses in output and investment commonly ...

Our earlier work has helped to switch the focus of studies of extreme capital flow movements toward the use of data on gross inflows (mainly driven by foreigners) and outflows (mainly driven by domestics) rather than relying on net flows (the sum of the two) (Forbes and Warnock 2012). The old focus ...

Emerging markets (EMs) are affected by a global financial cycle originating in developed economies (Rey 2013). An increase in risk appetite of developed economies perhaps spurred by easy monetary policy leads to a surge in capital flows to EMs. These foreign capital flows especially foreign portfolio ...

Large and persistent current account deficits are frequently raised as a cause for concern for a number of reasons. Perhaps the key concern is that countries in this situation could be on a path to insolvency, building up excessive net foreign debt, raising the prospects of default or a sharp reversal ...