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HBS Working Knowledge
August 21, 2006
Ann Cullen |
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance A discussion about the implications and the historical roles of Europe and the United States in promoting the flow of capital across national borders.   |
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 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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
Amar Bhattacharya |
A Tangled Web Everyone agrees on reforming the governance of financial markets, but who will do what remains unclear. |
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. |
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. |
U.S. Banker
June 2008
Karen Krebsbach |
Upending an Idol of Globalization Three recent reports dissect what the subprime-mortgage crisis has taught economy watchers about financial globalization, particularly unfettered access to credit. Does credit emerge as the savior or the villain? |
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
March 2009
Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz |
Data to the Rescue Why improved statistical information will be key for prevention of future crises. |
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
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 2009
Brad Setser |
The Shape of Things to Come Individual national decisions, not international summits, will remake the global financial system. |
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
September 2009
Atish R. Ghoshet et al. |
Anticipating the Next Crisis THE current global financial turmoil has rekindled the interest of both policymakers and the general public in early warning systems to anticipate future financial crises. But what alarms can such systems realistically sound? |
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
September 1, 2001 |
Book reviews and notes The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati... Future Positive: International Co-operation in the 21st Century by Michael Edwards... The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics... etc. |
Reason
March 2003
Charles Oliver |
Global Speculators A billionaire and a Nobel laureate want to fix international trade agencies. Why bother? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
S. Ibi Ajayi |
What Africa Needs to Do to Benefit from Globalization |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Marek Belka |
Europe Under Stress The global economic crisis is testing the cohesion of the European Union |
Finance & Development
June 2009
John Lipsky |
Preparing for a Postcrisis World Assessing the IMF's role in the future international financial architecture |
Finance & Development
March 2011 |
Veterans of the System Ideas for strengthening the international monetary system. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
James M. Boughton |
Michel Camdessus at the IMF: A Retrospective It may be some years until a definitive assessment of Michel Camdessus's unprecedented 13 years as Managing Director can be made. In this article, the IMF's Historian provides a preliminary evaluation. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002 |
Globalization: The Story Behind the Numbers Has globalization raised living standards?... What is globalization?... Has globalization helped the poor?... Has globalization reduced inequality?... What should governments do?... Globalization timeline... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Charles Collyns |
The Crisis through the Lens of History The current financial crisis is ferocious, but looking at history shows the way to avoid another Great Depression. |
| 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. |
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 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 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
December 1, 2002
Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Straight Talk Rethinking capital controls: When should we keep an open mind? |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Deepak Mishra |
Private Capital Flows and Growth International capital flows have increased dramatically in recent years, but their impact on developing countries has not been clear. Do the benefits justify the costs? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002
Christian Mulder |
Assessing the Dangers Spotting vulnerability to financial risks is key to preventing crises. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2005
de la Torre & Schmukler |
Small Fish, Big Pond What is the future for developing country capital markets in a globalized economy? |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001 |
Book reviews Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: An Essay on Financial Globalisation and Fragility by Alexandre Lamfalussy... From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays by Peter Bauer... Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom by Bob Woodward... etc. |
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
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
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. |
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
June 1, 2001
Paul Streeten |
Integration, Interdependence, and Globalization Although many commentators say we are living in a time of unprecedented global integration, the world economy was actually more integrated at the end of the nineteenth century. Despite increasing integration in some respects, today's world is in many ways fragmented and without coordination... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Archana Kumar |
The Catch-Up Game An interview with Michael Spence and Mahmoud Mohieldin: An academic and a policymaker share insights on what makes countries grow, in good times and bad. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2003 |
Book reviews The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third-World Development Policies, by Eberhard Reusse... Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium... Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East... etc. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002
Keller et al. |
The Bottom Line Weaknesses in public and private sector balance sheets could be the sign of a crisis in the making. |
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
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. |
