Chronic macro-economic and financial imbalances in the world economy: a meta-economic view
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 phenome...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editora 34
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Political Economy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572015000200203&lng=en&tlng=en |
| Summary: | 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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| ISSN: | 1809-4538 |