Capital Flows, Financial Integration, and International Reserve Holdings: The Recent Experience of Emerging Markets and Advanced Economies

By Sunil Sharma, Woon Gyu Choi, Maria Strömqvist

July 1, 2007

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Sunil Sharma, Woon Gyu Choi, and Maria Strömqvist. Capital Flows, Financial Integration, and International Reserve Holdings: The Recent Experience of Emerging Markets and Advanced Economies, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed October 6, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines the interaction between capital flows and international reserve holdings in the context of increasing financial integration. For emerging markets the sensitivity of reserves to net capital flows was negative in the 1980s, but became positive after the Asian crisis when these countries used net capital flows to build up reserves. For advanced countries, net capital flows had a negative effect on reserves, especially in recent years. Using measures of financial globalization, we also provide evidence that the sensitivity of reserves to net capital flows increased with globalization for emerging markets while it decreased for advanced countries.

Subject: Capital flows, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Exchange rate arrangements, Financial integration, International capital markets

Keywords: GDP, Net capital, Net capital flow, Opportunity cost, WP

Publication Details

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36
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Working Paper No. 2007/151
Stock No:

WPIEA2007151
ISBN:

9781451867152
ISSN:

1018-5941

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