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The concept of purchasing power parity (PPP) is used to evaluate whether eight East Asian currencies were overvalued on the eve of the 1997 crises. The Johansen and Horvath-Watson cointegration test procedures are applied to bilateral and multilateral exchange rates, deflated using CPIs,...
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. These economies are: China, Hong Kong, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore … in the sample -- South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand -- all of their companies cite the GRI framework. However, the picture …
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wages to increase beyond productivity increases. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is extended to trace cyclical … deviations of real exchange rates from the productivity-driven equilibrium path. Panel estimations for the period from 1995 to … evidence in favour of capital inflow-driven real wage increases in excess of productivity increases. …
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This paper provides a theoretical model of an open economy credit channel including currency mismatch and financial fragility where exporting firms have access to international credit but non-exporting firms do not. It considers the post-crisis outcome which is predicted to be dramatically...
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We develop a simple theoretical model and then use bank data from seven Asian economies to investigate the effects on bank lending of different liquidity management tools used by central banks. We find that hiking reserve requirements to sterilise foreign exchange purchases will retard bank...
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This paper investigates the extent to which output has recovered from the Asian crisis. A regime-switching approach that introduces two state variables is used to decompose recessions in a set of six Asian countries into permanent and transitory components. While growth recovered fairly quickly...
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