Precautionary Demand for Foreign Assets in Sudden Stop Economies : An Assessment of the New Merchantilism /

Financial globalization was off to a rocky start in emerging economies hit by Sudden Stops in the 1990s. The surge in foreign reserves since then is viewed as a New Merchantilism in which reserves are a war-chest for defense against Sudden Stops. We conduct a quantitative assessment of this argument...

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Autore principale: Mendoza, Enrique
Altri autori: Durdu, Ceyhun Bora, Terrones, Marco
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/146
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF
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