Determinants of Financial Stress and Recovery during the Great Recession

Joshua Aizenman and Gurnain Pasricha

No 16605, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: In this paper, we explore the link between stress in the domestic financial sector and the capital flight faced by countries in the 2008-9 global crisis. Both the timing of emergence of internal financial stress in developing economies, and the size of the peak-trough declines in the stock price indices was comparable to that in high income countries, indicating that there was no decoupling, even before Lehman Brothers' demise. Deleveraging of OECD positions seemed to dominate the patterns of capital flows during the crisis. While high income countries on average saw net capital inflows and net portfolio inflows during the crisis quarters, compared to net outflows for developing economies, the indicators of banking sector stress were higher for high income economies on average than for developing economies. Internal and external distress during crisis was closely interlinked with common underlying causes of both the severity of stress during the crisis and the recovery. External vulnerabilities were important in both phases, and higher international reserves did not insulate countries from stress.

JEL-codes: F32 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12
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Published as Joshua Aizenman & Gurnain Kaur Pasricha, 2012. "DETERMINANTS OF FINANCIAL STRESS AND RECOVERY DURING THE GREAT RECESSION," International Journal of Finance & Economics, vol 17(4), pages 347-372.

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