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Global Capital Markets Integration, Crisis, and Growth

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ISBN-10: 0521671795

ISBN-13: 9780521671798

Edition: 2005

Authors: Maurice Obstfeld, Alan M. Taylor, Akiyoshi Horiuchi, Paul Krugman, Ryzuo Sato

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This volume presents an economic survey of international capital mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present. The authors examine the theory and empiricle evidence surrounding the fall and rise of integration in the world market.
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Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 374
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preamble
Global Capital Markets: Overview and Origins
Theoretical benefits
Problems of supranational capital markets in practice
The emergence of world capital markets
Trilemma: Capital mobility, the exchange rate, and monetary policy
Global Capital in Modern Historical Perspective
Globalization in Capital Markets: Quantity Evidence
The stocks of foreign capital
The size of net international flows
The saving-investment relationship
Variations in the types of capital flows
Caveats: Quantity criteria
Globalization in Capital Markets: Price Evidence
Exchange-risk-free nominal interest parity
Real interest-rate convergence
Purchasing power parity
Caveats: Price criteria
Summary
The Political Economy of Capital Mobility
Globalization in Capital Markets: A Long-Run Narrative
Capital without constraints: The gold standard, 1870-1931
Crisis and compromise: Depression and war, 1931-1945
Containment then collapse: Bretton Woods, 1946-1972
Crisis and compromise II: Floating rates since 1973
Measuring integration using data on legal restrictions
Summary
Monetary Policy Interdependence and Exchange-Rate Regimes
Measuring interest-rate interdependence
Data sources
Persistence of nominal interest rates
Empirical findings: Pooled annual differences
Empirical findings: Individual-country dynamics
Summary
The Changing Nature of Government Credibility
Five suggestive cases
Econometric analysis
Summary
Lessons for Today
Uneven Integration
Foreign capital stocks: Net versus gross
Foreign capital: Rich versus poor
Has foreign capital always been biased toward the rich?
How much have poor countries liberalized their markets?
Summary
Uneven Rewards and Risks
Borrowing to finance capital accumulation
The role of cost distortions
Financial opening and economic performance
The role of institutions
Capital controls and growth
Open markets, volatility, and crises
Summary
Data Appendix
Bibliography