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price data from Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. It is shown that the welfare costs of borrowing constraints are positively … fluctuations are relatively transitory, to 11 percent of GDP in Japan, where land price fluctuations are the most persistent. …
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This paper uses non-parametric tests to provide a description of the "stylized facts" associated with episodes of speculative pressure in foreign exchange markets in Pacific Basin Economies, and to see whether these "stylized facts" appear to be broadly consistent with the alternative...
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Exchange rate policies depend on portfolio choices, and portfolio choices depend on anticipated exchange rate policies. This opens the door to multiple equilibria in policy regimes. We construct a model in which agents optimally choose to denominate their assets and liabilities either in...
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This paper examines the movements of exchange rates and capital flows in an environment where an optimizing central bank pursuing the joint goals of inflation and output targeting engages in costly sterilization activities. Our results predict that when faced with increased sterilization costs,...
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There are two striking conventional wisdoms about the status of regional trading blocs in East Asia. The first is that … members is thought to be very low. The second is that East Asia taken as a whole does function as a trading and investment … bilateral trade. The same is true of trade within East Asia more broadly (or trade within an ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand …
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