The Global Financial Crisis - Explaining Cross-Country Differences in the Output Impact / / Gaston Gelos, Robert Rennhack, James Walsh, Pelin Berkmen

• Autore: Gelos Gaston
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 19 p. : ill
• Soggetto topico: Financial crises; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Exports and Imports; Finance: General; Foreign Exchange; Money and Monetary Policy; General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data); Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General; Trade: General; Currency; Foreign exchange; Finance; Monetary economics; International economics; Emerging and frontier financial markets; Exchange rate flexibility; Credit; Exchange rates; Exports; Financial services industry
• Altri autori: RennhackRobert WalshJames BerkmenPelin
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: We provide one of the first attempts at explaining the differences in the crisis impact across developing countries and emerging markets. Using cross-country regressions to explain the factors driving growth forecast revisions after the eruption of the global crisis, we find that a small set of variables explain a large share of the variation in growth revisions. Countries with more leveraged domestic financial systems and more rapid credit growth tended to suffer larger downward revisions to their growth outlooks. For emerging markets, this financial channel trumps the trade channel. For a broader set of developing countries, however, the trade channel seems to have mattered, with countries exporting more advanced manufacturing goods more affected than those exporting food. Exchange-rate flexibility clearly helped in buffering the impact of the shock. There is also some -weaker-evidence that countries with a stronger fiscal position prior to the crisis were hit less severely. We find little evidence for the importance of other policy variables.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Global Financial Crisis - Explaining Cross-Country Differences in the Output Impact
• ISBN: 1-4623-7795-5; 9786612844676; 1-282-84467-9; 1-4527-7326-2; 1-4518-7425-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788222203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2009/280