The private financial capital flows across national borders have been heavily promoted long global economic growth. The ability to move capital from one country to another that allows borrowers to finance investments without having to rely on a low national savings sometimes. At the same time, it provides investors and lenders to obtain a higher return than could be achieved in countries of origin. From a global, cross-border capital movements promote efficiency and economic growth, enabling the financial resources used in the more profitable and productive as possible.

Cross-border flows of capital and flourished in the decades preceding the First World War. Investors in London and Paris financed everything from railroads in the Americas and guano from Peru to Australia. Capital flows were restored at the conclusion of that conflict, only to be cut again in the thirties by the great economic depression, the resulting intensification of restrictions on trade and capital flows, and finally the outbreak of the War world.

When plans began for the creation of the IMF and World Bank during the war years, the architects of the new institutions were concerned that the international market for private equity has vanished forever. However, transboundary flows to industrialized countries were restored in the fifties and sixties, and then continues to grow exponentially, and extend to what are now called emerging market economies. In early and mid-eighties, capital flows to emerging market economies experienced a long period of decline due to several of the major borrowing countries, especially in Latin America experienced difficulties in servicing their debt.

Following the crisis, Latin America, “a lost decade” of economic growth and the crisis also threatened with the collapse of commercial banks in industrial countries, especially United States. The international community is thoroughly applied to solving the debt crisis. The effort paid off, and at the end of that decade, the rapid re-acceleration of flows of capital. At 1997, the gross volume of capital flows to emerging economies reached a peak of U.S. $ 290.000 million.

As the growing volume of international capital flows in relation to the size of national economies, also increased the risk of disruption that a change of sign meant. The need to maintain investor confidence may provide a useful discipline, it increases the reward if the measures are good and punishment if they are bad. But in recent years, flows have become more volatile colleagues or what might reasonably justified based on changes in economic prospects of countries.

Thus, economies are increasingly vulnerable to crises of confidence, which is similar to the banking panic situations. Sometimes investors behave in an exaggerated view of the development of the economy, or too late to react. The impact of decisions grows disproportionately as the nervousness of investors are contagious to others. In the book Extraordinary Popular delusions and the Madness of Crowds [popular imagination and madness of the people], Charles MacKay wrote: “Men, well said, think in herds; that was crazy as if they were cattle, while the right direction slowly recovered, and one by one. ”

Could see with regret as the economies of Southeast Asia in 1997 and 1998, the sudden change of sign of a huge volume of capital inflows and foreign currency shortages that entails, can cause major economic damage. Can lead to sharp fall in the value of the currency of one country in the currency markets, which in turn leads to prices of imports and debt service, expressed in foreign currency. At the same time, you may require a considerable improvement on the current account balance for the foreign exchange needed to finance the capital outflow.

In turn, this requires the sharp contraction of economic activity to reduce the cost of imports, which helps the momentum gradually with the fall of the exchange rate occurs in the country’s competitiveness. In Thailand, for example, the position of the current account balance moved from deficit to surplus, of $ 29,000 million or 20% of annual national product between 1996 and 1998. This development was related to falls of 45% in the value of Thai baht in 1997 and 10% in national income in 1998.

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