External Finance, Sudden Stops, and Financial Crisis: What is Different This Time?

International Monetary Fund
2010 IMF Working Papers  
This paper develops a two-country DSGE model to investigate the transmission of a global financial crisis to a small open economy. We find that economies hit by a sudden stop arising from financial distress in the global economy are likely to face a more prolonged crisis than sudden stop episodes of domestic origin. Moreover, in contrast to the existing literature, our results suggest that the greater a country's trade integration with the rest of the world, the greater the response of its
more » ... economic aggregates to a sudden stop of capital flows. JEL Classification Numbers: E5, F3, F4
doi:10.5089/9781455201419.001 fatcat:w44io3vcuzcmdmwgzglkz534qy