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HBS Working Knowledge
February 28, 2007
Rawi Abdelal |
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance The world looks different to most financial policymakers in the twenty-first century, with many regions, and the United States in particular, adopting ad hoc measures that benefit their own interests but ignore the lessons learned from financial crises in the 1920s and 1930s.   |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2007
Yaga Venugopal Reddy |
Point of View: Converting a Tiger The Reserve Bank of India's governor offers lessons from the country's gradualist approach to capital account convertibility. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2007
Kose et al. |
Financial Globalization: Beyond the Blame Game A new way of looking at financial globalization -- the phenomenon of rising cross-border financial flows -- reexamines its costs and benefits. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Pisani-Ferry & Santos |
Reshaping the Global Economy The economic and financial crisis marks the end (for now) of a rapid expansion of globalization. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Brad Setser |
The Shape of Things to Come Individual national decisions, not international summits, will remake the global financial system. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Burton et al. |
Asia's Winds of Change The path that Asian countries have traveled to growth and prosperity in the past 50 years will remain relevant for the future -- the embrace of openness, the commitment to macroeconomic stability, and the drive to adapt and reform in response to changing circumstances. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
James M. Boughton |
Globalization and the Silent Revolution of the 1980s During the 1980s, the economic policymakers of many countries underwent a dramatic change in thinking. How beneficial has this 'silent revolution' been, and what can policymakers and the international community do now to broaden and secure the gains it has brought? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2007
Mauro & Yafeh |
Financial Crises of the Future Will future financial crises resemble the contagious crises of the 1990s, or the country-specific crises of the 1890s? What seems clear is that both advanced and emerging market countries will pay close attention to this debate. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Amar Bhattacharya |
A Tangled Web Everyone agrees on reforming the governance of financial markets, but who will do what remains unclear. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 12, 2014
Sean Silverthorne |
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization Why is the firm overlooked as a contributor when we identify the drivers of globalization? Geoffrey Jones discusses his new book, Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
James M. Boughton |
A New Bretton Woods? History shows that reforming the international financial system will require both leadership and inclusiveness. |
Reason
March 2003
Charles Oliver |
Global Speculators A billionaire and a Nobel laureate want to fix international trade agencies. Why bother? |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2007
Burton & Zanello |
Asia Ten Years After A decade after the Asian financial crisis, the region is growing rapidly but still has a long to-do list. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2006
Zagha, Nankani & Gill |
Rethinking Growth Economists are reconsidering what they really know about economic growth and how to go about formulating global national policies in the absence of reliable models. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Marek Belka |
Europe Under Stress The global economic crisis is testing the cohesion of the European Union |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Gerd Hausler |
The Globalization of Finance Financial globalization has brought considerable benefits to national economies and to investors and savers, but it has also changed the structure of markets, creating new risks and challenges for market participants and policymakers... |
Finance & Development
September 2006 |
Book Reviews Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century by Jeffry Frieden... Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil: Bad Luck or Bad Policy? by Guillermo Calvo... etc. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002
Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Straight Talk Rethinking capital controls: When should we keep an open mind? |
Finance & Development
September 2010 |
Data Spotlight: Coping with Capital Inflow Surges In response to recent inflow surges, some emerging markets are again using capital controls |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2007
Mohamed A. El-Erian |
Dealing with Global Fluidity With new forces shaping global capital markets, participants in international finance are well advised to rethink their operating models. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 23, 2005
Cynthia Churchwell |
What Could Bring Globalization Down? Do you think the forces of globalization are here to stay? Harvard professor Niall Ferguson says nothing is for certain. Consider what happened to the "first age of globalization" in 1914---and then look around at the world today. |
Finance & Development
September 2007 |
Book Reviews Ethics and Finance: Finding a Moral Compass in Business Today... Legal Foundations of International Monetary Stability... Economics the Caribbean way... etc. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Economist Joseph Stiglitz and His Discontents In a timely book, issued in a period when protests against the process of globalization continue to spread across the globe, and Stiglitz musters some impressive ammunition for his indictment of the IMF. But his salvo may mask some gaps in his reasoning. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2007
Cottarelli & Mateos y Lago |
Helping the Global Economy Stay in Shape The IMF adopts a new framework for monitoring countries' economic performance. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001 |
Book reviews Robert Solomon's Money on the Move: The Revolution in International Finance Since 1980... Distributive Justice and Economic Development: The Case of Chile and Developing Countries... Ruth de Krivoy's Collapse: The Venezuelan Banking Crisis of '94... etc. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Eduardo Aninat |
Surmounting the Challenges of Globalization In recent years, concerns have grown about the negative aspects of globalization and especially about whether the world's poorest will share in its benefits. There is an urgent need for a broad global debate on how these challenges can best be met and on who should play what role... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Roger Nord |
Central and Eastern Europe and the New Financial Architecture As the Central and Eastern European countries prepare to join the European Union, they are participating in worldwide efforts to strengthen the global economy... |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Tomas J.T. Balino & Angel Ubide |
The New World of Banking Four trends are fundamentally altering the financial world: consolidation of institutions, globalization of operations, development of new technologies, and universalization of banking. Each of these poses challenges for the effective supervision and regulation of the financial sector.... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2007
Boughton & Bradford |
Global Governance: New Players, New Rules The financial turbulence of 2007 illustrates -- not for the first time -- both the benefits and the risks of financial globalization. Here's why the 20th-century model needs a makeover. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Ingves & Lind |
Stockholm Solutions A crucial lesson from the Nordic experience is the need for prominent state involvement in crisis resolution. |
Finance & Development
March 2011 |
Veterans of the System Ideas for strengthening the international monetary system. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Claudio M. Loser & Martine Guerguil |
The Long Road to Financial Stability Most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean weathered the economic crises of the late 1990s better than expected, thanks to the policy reforms of the past two decades. Further reform is urgently needed, however, to put the region on a faster growth path and reduce its vulnerability to external shocks. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2001
James M. Boughton |
Was Suez in 1956 the First Financial Crisis of the Twenty-First Century? The IMF's lending to the four countries directly involved in the 1956 Suez crisis, and particularly to the United Kingdom, raised the institution's profile and established its role in helping member countries cope with international financial crises... |
Reason
November 2000
Brink Lindsey |
Trade Winds International economic integration is a phenomenon drowned in hype: Cheerleaders talk breathlessly of a world without borders, while doomsayers rage against the supposed tyranny of uncontrolled market forces. John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge cut through both sides' bombast... |
Finance & Development
December 2010
Quintyn & Verdier |
Trusting the Government Confidence in government is the key to financial development. |
BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011
Tom Keene |
Tom Keene's EconoChat A talk with Harvard international political economy professor Dani Rodrik about globalization and its shortfalls. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
John Lipsky |
Preparing for a Postcrisis World Assessing the IMF's role in the future international financial architecture |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Mohamed Daouas |
Africa Faces Challenges of Globalization |
Finance & Development
June 2010 |
Min Zhu on Asia's Economy and More A conversation with the special advisor to the IMF's managing director about Asia in the new world order, global economic issues, and the IMF's relations with the region that is favored to lead the world out of crisis. |
Finance & Development
September 2008
Masood Ahmed |
The Next Frontier Low-income countries gain ground in a globalized world, but they still face major challenges. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002
Lipschitz et al. |
The Tosovsky Dilemma: Capital Surges in Transition Countries Transition countries that open themselves up to global capital markets are vulnerable to large and potentially erratic flows. Such flows should not be seen as one-off destabilizing events: they are intrinsic to the transition process and therefore need to be factored into policy formulation. |
Finance & Development
March 2008
David T. Coe |
Jobs on Another Shore Outsourcing of service jobs to other countries could affect industrial countries' economies and attitudes toward globalization. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
G.E. Gondwe |
Making Globalization Work in Africa There is no doubt that economic growth rates in sub-Saharan Africa have lagged far behind those of other regions and that Africa is the region least integrated into the global economy. |
Finance & Development
June 2010
Linda Yueh |
A Stronger China China can emerge from the crisis stronger if it increases domestic demand and promotes global integration. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Haizhou Huang & S. Kal Wajid |
Financial Stability in the World of Global Finance To reduce their vulnerability to national and international financial crises, countries must address the weaknesses in their financial systems... |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
Flemming Larsen |
The IMF's Dialogue with Nongovernmental Organizations The IMF is responding to questions about its role in today's world economy by reaching out to civil society at large and to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in particular... |
Finance & Development
June 2011 |
Esprit de Currency The IMF and WTO must pull together to iron out exchange rate policy disputes. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Kevin Watkins |
Making Globalization Work for the Poor In the view of the IMF, the World Bank, and most northern governments, removing barriers to trade is one of the most powerful things that governments can do to give the poor a bigger stake in global prosperity... |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz |
Data to the Rescue Why improved statistical information will be key for prevention of future crises. |
Reason
September 2004
Prakash Loungani |
Globalization Without Tears The book In Defense of Globalization tries to show that major complaints about the adverse social effects of globalization are mistaken. Globalization in fact reduces poverty and the use of child labor, fosters women's rights, promotes respect for democratic norms, enriches culture, and even sustains the environment. |
