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Bruno Pellegrino · Enrico Spolaore · Romain Wacziarg

Why do observed international investment positions and cross-country differences in rates of return to capital fail to conform to a frictionless capital-market benchmark? The paper asks how large the …

Michael B. Devereux · Alan Sutherland

This paper develops a simple, widely applicable approximation method for computing equilibrium country portfolios in dynamic stochastic general equilibrium open-economy macro models -- any number of …

Barbara Rossi

Asked whether anything forecasts exchange rates, this survey's answer is "it depends" -- on the predictor, the horizon, the sample, the model and the evaluation test. Predictability shows up most …

Carmen M Reinhart · Kenneth S Rogoff

Sorting about 3,700 annual observations from 44 countries over roughly two centuries into four debt-to-GDP buckets, the authors find little relationship between public debt and growth below 90 percent …

Matteo Maggiori · Brent Neiman · Jesse Schreger

Using a new security-level dataset covering $32 trillion in global investment positions, this paper establishes that the currency a bond is denominated in -- not the nationality of its issuer -- is …

Julian di Giovanni · Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan · Mehmet Fatih Ulu · Yusuf Soner Baskaya

Using the universe of Turkish corporate credit transactions matched to bank balance sheets over 2003-13, this paper shows that an easing of global financial conditions lowers domestic borrowing costs …

Xing Guo · Pablo Ottonello · Diego J. Perez

This paper builds an open-economy heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian (HANK) model in which households differ not only in income and wealth but in their real integration (tradable vs. nontradable …

Josefin Meyer · Carmen M Reinhart · Christoph Trebesch

Two centuries of monthly prices for 1,552 foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York, matched bond-by-bond to a new archive of defaults and haircuts, show that external sovereign …

Anusha Chari · Karlye Dilts-Stedman · Kristin Forbes

A country's macroprudential stance looks irrelevant to portfolio flows on average, but that average hides the tails. Countries with tighter ex-ante regulation see larger bond and equity outflows in …

Anusha Chari · Karlye Dilts Stedman · Christian Lundblad

Identifying US monetary policy shocks from daily moves in five-year Treasury futures around FOMC announcements, this paper shows that during the unconventional-policy years those shocks largely …

Stefan Avdjiev · Wenxin Du · Cathérine Koch · Hyun Song Shin

The strength of the US dollar, the size of covered interest parity deviations and the growth of dollar-denominated cross-border bank lending move together in what the authors call a triangular …

Philip R. Lane

An interim survey of the dynamic general equilibrium open-economy literature that grew out of Obstfeld and Rogoff's 1995 Redux model, organised around the question of which of its assumptions its …

Laura Alfaro · Anusha Chari · Fabio Kanczuk

Brazil's IOF tax on foreign portfolio inflows was announced overnight and without warning, which makes it readable in stock prices. Two-day cumulative abnormal returns for listed Brazilian firms fall …