Sudden Flight and True Sudden Stops

We extend the sudden stops literature by recognizing that crisis episodes can be caused by the retreat of global investors, as is commonly assumed but not shown in the extant literature, or by the sudden flight of local investors. We find that almost half of the previously defined sudden stops are a...

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Published in:Review of international economics 2011-08, Vol.19 (3), p.509-524
Main Authors: Rothenberg, Alexander D., Warnock, Francis E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Asymmetric information
Capital flow
Capital movement
Currencies
Currency devaluation
Economic conditions
Economic crisis
Economic theory
International investment
Investors
Studies
Sudden stops
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Summary:We extend the sudden stops literature by recognizing that crisis episodes can be caused by the retreat of global investors, as is commonly assumed but not shown in the extant literature, or by the sudden flight of local investors. We find that almost half of the previously defined sudden stops are actually episodes of sudden flight in which gross inflows resume quickly and strongly. In contrast, in true sudden stops inflows cease for an extended period and, compared to sudden flight, these episodes are bunched and are associated with greater slowdowns in economic activity and sharper currency depreciations. We also show that the empirical regularities of sudden flight and true sudden stops are consistent with theoretical models that incorporate gross capital flows and information asymmetries.
ISSN:0965-7576
1467-9396
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9396.2011.00962.x