Debt in emerging markets and developing economies is at its highest level in half a century.
In about 9 in 10 emerging markets and developing economies, debt is higher now than it …

Researchers have available to them numerous indicators of financial openness and
integration, many of which have yielded substantially differing results in past research, for …

We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index
measuring globalization for every country in the world along the economic, social and …

This book started from our discussions of a paradox. Yet despite its importance it has been
curiously little discussed in the academic literature. On the one hand, the last century of …

This paper introduces a comprehensive database of macroprudential policies, which covers
134 countries from January 1990. Using a novel numerical indicator of the tightness of loan …

This paper analyzes the effect of mobile money adoption on tax revenue performance in a
large sample of 104 developing countries over the period 1990–2019. Estimations, based …

This article provides a comprehensive history of anchor or reference currencies, exchange
rate arrangements, and a new measure of foreign exchange restrictions for 194 countries …

We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index
measuring globalization for every country in the world along the economic, social and …

We present and describe a new dataset of capital control restrictions on both inflows and
outflows of ten categories of assets for 100 countries over the period 1995 to 2013. Building …

This paper analyzes waves in international capital flows. We develop a new methodology for
identifying episodes of extreme capital flow movements using data that differentiates activity …