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The Business Cycle in the Philippines
Leitner, Sandra M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This paper provides an overall picture of the Philippine business cycles covering the period 1981 to 2003 by characterizing them in terms of volatility, co-movement and persistence. As a trend-cycle decomposition technique, the most frequently used Hodrick Prescott filter was applied. The period...
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Examining the decoupling hypothesis for India
Jayaram, Shruthi; Patnaik, Ila; Shah, Ajay - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper examines the decoupling hypothesis for India. We analyse business cycle synchronisation between India and a set of industrial economies, particularly the United States, over the period 1992 to 2008. The evidence suggests that the Indian business cycle exhibits increasing co-movement...
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Time-Varying Incentives in the Mutual Fund Industry
Tay, Anthony - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper re-examines the incentives of mutual fund managers arising from investor flows. We provide evidence that the convexity of the flow-performance relationship varies with economic activity. We show that the effect is economically large and is not driven by abnormal years. We test two...
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Has Liberalization Strengthened the Link between Services and Manufacturing?
Pasadilla, Gloria O.; Liao, Christine Marie M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Globalization and pressure from increased competition have led to splintering of in-house services from formerly integrated manufacturing firms in developed economies and, at the same time, to an increase in outsourcing of these same services. These two trends have caused a stronger linkage in...
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The Employment Potential of Labor Intensive Industries in India’s Organized Manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries … intensive industries during the selected time period. The increase in output failed to generate enough employment growth … resulting in a significant decline in employment elasticity. The paper briefly highlights the plausible factors that could have …
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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 … bicycles for 2005-06 an attempt is made to find out the factors which constrain employment generation in labour intensive firms …. The study shows several constraints in the path of employment generation in labour intensive sectorsnon-availability of …
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Sustainable External Debt Levels : Estimates for Selected Asian Countries
Mariano, Roberto; Villanueva, Delano - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
High ratios of external debt to GDP in selected Asian countries have contributed to the initiation, propagation, and severity of the financial and economic crises in recent years, reflecting runaway fiscal deficits and excessive foreign borrowing by the private sector. Applying the formal...
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Processing Trade, Exchange Rates, and the People’s Republic of China’s Bilateral Trade Balances
Xing, Yuqing - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
major sources of its own processing imports, accounting for 16.8% of its total processing imports from all 51 trading …
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The Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Japanese Consumption Exports
Thorbecke, Willem; Kato, Atsuyuki - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
This paper investigates how exchange rates affect Japanese exports. This is difficult because many of Japan’s exports are used to produce goods for re-export. An appreciation in the importing country that decreases exports can decrease its imported inputs from Japan. To correct for this...
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Exchange Rates and Global Rebalancing
Eichengreen, Barry; Rua, Gisela - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
This paper considers the general equilibrium relationship between exchange rates and global imbalances. It emphasizes that the exchange rate is not a primitive but an equilibrium price determined by the policy mix. It uses extensions of the two-country Obstfeld-Rogoff model to analyze the...
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