CfP Deadline Date: January 15, 2020 Conference Event: March 25-26, 2021 Event Location: Dresden, Germany Organizer(s): ifo Dresden The ifo Institute, Dresden Branch warmly invites submissions to the ifo Dresden Workshop on Macroeconomics and International Finance. Particularly welcome are contributions on the following topics: Forecasting the economy with economic sentiment indicators Measurement and / or[…]
By Marina Conesa Martínez, Giulia Lotti and Andrew Powell Global banks are highly connected, and banking systems are only as strong as the weakest links in the network. This column analyses cross-border syndicated lending to emerging and developing countries from 1993 to 2020 and finds evidence of both resilience and fragility in the global financial[…]
Author(s): Pol Antràs Date: November 2020 Abstract: This paper evaluates the extent to which the world economy has entered a phase of de-globalisation, and it offers some speculative thoughts on the future of global value chains in the post-COVID-19 age. Although the growth of international trade flows relative to that of GDP has slowed down[…]
Author(s): Marina Conesa, Giulia Lotti and Andrew Powell Date: November 2020 Abstract: Theory suggest s both resilience and fragility in banking networks . This paper finds both, exploiting a new database o f cross -border syndicated lending to developing countries from 1993 to 2017. Shocks propagate via co-lenders driven by central players , but shocks[…]