NBER Books - Capital Flows and the Emerging Economies: Theory, Evidence and Controversies



Capital Flows and the Emerging Economies: Theory, Evidence and Controversies
Sebastian Edwards, editor

The University of Chicago Press, 2000
Cloth: $50.00
ISBN: 0-226-18470-6

Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Sebastian Edwards

    Part I - Capital Mobility to Developing Countries: Theoretical Aspects

    1. Contagion, Globalization and the Volatility of Capital Flows
    Guillermo A. Calvo and Enrique G. Mendoza

      Comment: Rudiger Dornbusch

    2. Fire-Sale FDI
    Paul Krugman

      Comment: Aaron Tornell

    3. Capital Flows to Emerging Markets: Liberalization, Overshooting, and Volatility
    Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop

      Comment: Carmen M. Reinhart

    Part II - Cross-Country Evidence

    4. What Explains Changing Spreads on Emerging-Market Debt?
    Barry Eichengreen and Ashoka Mody

      Comment: Sylvia Maxfield

    5. Is There A Curse of Location? Spatial Determinants of Capital Flows to Emerging Markets
    Swati Ghosh and Holger Wolf

      Comment: Miguel A. Savastano

    6. Capital Flows and the Behavior of Emerging Market Equity Returns
    Geert Bekaert and Campbell R. Harvey

    Part III - Capital Movements to Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe

    7. Capital Flows, Real Exchange Rates, and Capital Controls: Some Latin American Experiences
    Sebastian Edwards

      Comment: José De Gregorio

    8. Capital Flows in Asia
    Takatoshi Ito

      Comment: Dani Rodrik

    9. Capital Flows to Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union
    Stijn Claessens, Daniel Oks and Rossana Polastri

      Comment: Michael P. Dooley