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Taiwan was perhaps the first developing country to adopt an export-oriented trade strategy after World War II. The …. In 1954, economist S. C. Tsiang proposed that Taiwan boost export earnings rather than squeeze import spending to deal … later, a leading policymaker, K. Y. Yin, fought for the adoption of Tsiang's proposal, helping clear the way for Taiwan …
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History shows that governments usually rethink their views on international macroeconomic cooperation after the emergence of a crisis. The response of the Asian countries after the speculative attacks occurred in 1997 may be considered as another example after the European ERM crisis in 1992-93....
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We study the apparent disconnect between what countries announce to be their exchange rate regime and what they de facto implement. Even though discrepancies between announcements and de facto polices are frequent, there is a lack of understanding of actual patterns and underlying reasons. We...
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Global production sharing - the breakup of a production process into vertically separated stages that are carried out in different countries - has become one of the defining characteristics of world trade over the past few decades. Any analysis of trade patterns or its determinants that ignores...
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Recently, the calls for closer monetary co-operation between the Asian NICs and Japan have been becoming louder. The following article discusses the pros and cons of pegging to the yen and compares them with those of a basket peg.
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Leaving foreign exchange markets to themselves may not lead to realistic and stable exchange rates. Thus appropriate criteria for interference must be defined. The OPTICA (Optimal Currency Area) Group which was appointed by the European Commission tried to work out appropriate rules for the EC....
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