Will Subprime be a Twin Crisis for the United States?

Michael Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau and Peter Garber

No 13978, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We identify incentives generated by the Bretton Woods II system that may have contributed to the sub-prime liquidity crisis now working its way through the international monetary system. We then evaluate the persistent conjecture that the liquidity crisis is or will become a balance of payments crisis for the United States. Given that it happens, the additional costs associated with a sudden stop of net capital flows to the United States could be quite substantial. But we observe that emerging market governments have continued to acquire US assets even as yields have fallen, and the incentives for continuing to do so remain strong. Moreover, the Bretton Woods II system, which has clearly been the most resilient of the forces driving current markets, continues to generate low real interest rates in industrial countries and growth in emerging markets that will help limit the damage from the liquidity crisis.

JEL-codes: F02 F32 F33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-05
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Published as Michael P. Dooley & David Folkerts-Landau & Peter M. Garber, 2009. "Will Sub-Prime be a Twin Crisis for the United States?," Review of International Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 17(4), pages 655-666, 09.

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