Chronic macro-economic and financial imbalances in the world economy: a meta-economic view

Autor: ROBERT GUTTMANN
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Vol 35, Iss 2, Pp 203-226 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1809-4538
0101-3157
DOI: 10.1590/0101-31572015v35n02a01
Popis: Global finance, combining offshore banking and universal banks to drive a broader globalization process, has transformed the modus operandi of the world economy. This requires a new "meta-economic" framework in which short-term portfolio-investment flows are treated as the dominant phenomenon they have become. Organized by global finance, these layered bi-directional flows between center and periphery manage a tension between financial concentration and monetary fragmentation. The resulting imbalances express the asymmetries built into that tension and render the exchange rate a more strategic policy variable than ever.
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