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This paper examines the ASEAN+3 cooperation of regional financial safety nets, and reviews the regional monetary issues of a single currency and currency competition in East Asia. We point out potential systemic risks in East Asia and the importance of regional surveillance. ASEAN+3 regional...
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East Asian countries were seriously affected by the 2008 global crisis through a steep fall in exports. This experience exposed the vulnerability of the East Asian growth model and emphasized the importance of generating regional growth by expanding domestic demand and enlarging intra-regional...
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of June and July. Moreover, costs of raw materials, cost of energy and inflation are the main determinants of price … of the firms index their workers wages with inflation and past inflation rate is usually used for the purpose. Labour … productivity and changes in inflation rate are found to be the main causes of wage change. …
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The paper examines the impact of recent inflation and financial shocks on the vulnerable, and explores policy design to … reduce both future shocks and vulnerability to shocks. Inflation affects the typical savings cum pension portfolio and the …, which tend to increase with age, aggravate the psychological trauma associated with inflation. The decline of traditional …
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We examine determinants of inflation in China. Analyses of both yearonyear and monthonmonth growth data confirm excess … liquidity, output gap, housing prices and stock prices positively affecting inflation. Impulse response analyses indicate that … exchange rates on inflation are relatively weak. Our results suggest that output gap is as important as excess liquidity in …
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This study contributes to the stock returns-inflation relation literature in developing countries by revisiting the … effective hedge against inflation usingmonthly data on real stock return, inflation and real activity from April 1980 to March … real activity; (ii) the negative stock returns-inflation relation emerges fromthe unexpected component of the inflation and …
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This paper examines financing mechanisms to support infrastructure development and connectivity in Northeast Asia—comprising the Northeastern People’s Republic of China, Japan, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, and the...
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This paper evaluates the extent of exchange rate coordination among Asian economies using a hypothetical Asian Currency Unit. Rising interdependence among Asian economies makes it vital for these economies to have a certain degree of exchange rate stability. However, the empirical evidence...
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This paper discusses mechanisms to prevent and resolve foreign exchange crises in East Asia. Policies and mechanisms at the country level as well as regional and global levels are discussed. Policies at the level of a particular country to prevent foreign exchange crises include the management...
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The rise of regional monetary arrangements poses a challenge for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s global surveillance efforts. This paper reviews how the IMF has responded to earlier regional initiatives, from the European Payments Union of the 1950s and the Gold Pool of the 1960s to the...
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