International Capital Reversals: Consequences and Determinants

International capital reversals lead to many financial crises in emerging markets from 1970 to 2007. In this paper we present descriptive statistics on capital account reversals and financial crises and analyze the determinants of crises and measure their marginal effects on different economic structure. Furthermore, we consider the influence of export to GDP, ratio of services industry and economic growth on the pattern of capital reversals and financial crises and their effects differed considerably depending on a country' s economic circumstances, just as they do in 2008 crises.