International Capital Flows When Safe Assets Scarcity Matters

International Capital Flows and Development: Financial Openness Matters

Does capital flow from rich to poor countries? We revisit the Lucas paradox and explore the role of capital account restrictions in shaping capital flows at various stages of economic development. We find that, when accounting for the degree of capital account openness, the prediction of the neoclassical theory is confirmed: less developed countries tend to experience net capital inflows and mo...

Scarcity of Safe Assets, Inflation, and the Policy Trap

A goal of this paper is to make sense of the seemingly puzzling behavior of interest rates and inflation and the role of central banks in that behavior during and after the Great Recession, particularly in the United States. To this end, we construct a model in which government debt plays a key role in exchange, and can bear a liquidity premium. If asset market constraints bind, then there need...

Controlling International Capital Flows

The East Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s has challenged the widely-held belief that international financial markets should be deregulated. The common arguments both for and against free international capital flows are analysed and contrasted. Given the existence of various distortions and market failures in the global economy, there is a case for some degree of control. The extension a...

International Capital Flows

Essays on International Capital Flows

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