Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17762 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1107
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
The globalization of capital and product markets has many implications for economic welfare. Countries can specialize in the production of goods for which they have comparative advantages, and capital is allocated more efficiently. However, one potentially adverse effect of globalization is the possibility that business cycle volatility might increase. Rapid and badly co-ordinated capital account liberalization has been blamed for enhancing the vulnerability of emerging markets to unstable international capital flows. At the same time, business cycle volatility in OECD countries seems to have been on a decline in the past decades.
Subjects: 
business cycle volatility
financial openness
new open economy macro models
JEL: 
E32
F41
G15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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