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Prospective Deficits and the Asian Currency Crises

Burnside, Craig; Eichenbaum, Martin; Rebelo, Sérgio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper argues that the recent Southeast Asian currency crises was caused by large prospective deficits associated with implicit bailout guarantees to failing banking systems. We articulate this view using a simple dynamic general equilibrium model whose key feature is that a speculative...

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Chinese Currency Controversies

Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper reviews the controversy over China’s exchange rate regime. Placing the issue in the context of the literature on exit strategies, it argues that now is the best time for China to exit from its peg. Moving to a managed float would be in the country’s own interest; it would help the...

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Inflation Targeting and Inflation Persistence in Asia

Gerlach, Stefan; Tillmann, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Following the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98, a number of Asian central banks adopted inflation targeting. We explore how successful this framework has been by looking at the persistence of inflation, as measured by the sum of the coefficients in an autoregressive model for inflation, using a...

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Geography and the Determinants of Firm Exports in Indonesia

Farole, Thomas; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tselios, Vassilis; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper uses data from the Indonesian manufacturing census in order to uncover the determinants of firm exports over the period 1990-2005. We examine to what extent differences in firm export propensity and intensity are a consequence of firm-level (microeconomic), of place-based...

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The Early Modern Great Divergence: Wages, Prices and Economic Development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800

Broadberry, Stephen N; Gupta, Bishnupriya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Contrary to the claims of Pomeranz, Parthasarathi and other ‘world historians’, the prosperous parts of Asia between …. The ‘Great Divergence’ between Europe and Asia was already well underway before 1800. …

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Investment and capital structure of partially private regulated firms

Cambini, Carlo; Spiegel, Yossi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop a model that examines the capital structure and investment decisions of regulated firms in a setting that …

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A Gains from Trade Perspective on Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Beaudry, Paul; Portier, Franck - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Business cycles reflect changes over time in the amount of trade between individuals. In this paper we show that incorporating explicitly intra-temporal gains from trade between individuals into a macroeconomic model can provide new insight into the potential mechanisms driving economic...

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Keynes Meets Markowitz: The Trade-off Between Familiarity and Diversification

Boyle, Phelim; Garlappi, Lorenzo; Uppal, Raman; Wang, Tan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We develop a model of portfolio choice to nest the views of Keynes - who advocates concentration in a few familiar assets - and Markowitz - who advocates diversification across assets. We rely on the concepts of ambiguity and ambiguity aversion to formalize the idea of an investor’s...

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Profit Taxation, Innovation and the Financing of Heterogeneous Firms

Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Credit constraints are more frequent among growth companies with large investment opportunities. For the same reason … investment opportunities to a larger extent. (ii) Taxes which are neutral in a neoclassical world, still restrict expansion … investment of constrained firms by reducing free cash-flow and thereby discourage innovation. (iii) A revenue neutral increase in …

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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program

Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world’s largest community-based development program--China’s flagship poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory village planning. We use matching methods and...

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