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The Role of State Intervention in the Financial Sector : Crisis Prevention, Containment, and Resolution

Cho, Yoon Je - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

, and a balanced approach to restructuring and regulation among different types of financial institutions. The paper also …

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Sub-Prime Financial Crisis and US Policy Choices

Oh, Yonghyup; Song, Wonho - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

This paper argues that the subprime financial crisis reflects weakness in the real economy of the US from its start. Our comparison with prior US recessions indicates that the epicenters of most of the recessions were in the financial sector and that recessionary pressure was present in the last...

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The Financial Crisis and the Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies : A European Banking Perspective

Utzig, Siegfried - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

crisis, after the crisis started, politicians became increasingly vocal in demanding regulation. Initially, these demands … were confined to a more binding form of self-regulation. But as the crisis progressed, the calls for state regulation grew … ever louder. It became apparent after the November 2008 G-20 summit in Washington that state regulation could no longer be …

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The Euro After Its First Decade : Weathering the Financial Storm and Enlarging the Euro Area

Regling, Klaus; Deroose, Servaas; Felke, Reinhard; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

The first decade of economic and monetary union in Europe (EMU) has been a huge success. EMU has significantly benefited its member countries and accelerated the European integration process. Imbalances within EMUdifferences in growth, inflation, competitiveness, current account and budget...

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Impacts of Current Global Economic Crisis on Asiaââ‚¬â„¢s Labor Market

Huynh, Phu; Kapsos, Steven; Kim, Kee Beom; Sziraczki, Gyorgy - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

The paper investigates the labor market and social impacts of the global financial and economic crisis in Asia and the Pacific as well as national policy responses to the crisis. It draws on recent macroeconomic, trade, production, investment, and remittances data to assess the employment and...

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The Financial Crisis, Rethinking of the Global Financial Architecture, and the Trilemma

Aizenman, Joshua; Chinna, Menzie D.; Ito, Hiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

This paper extends our previous paper (Aizenman, Chinn, and Ito 2008) and explores some of the unexplored questions. First, we examine the channels through which the trilemma policy configurations affect output volatility. Secondly, we investigate how trilemma policy configurations affect the...

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Global Financial Crisis : Impact on Singapore and ASEAN

Thangavelu, Shandre M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

Despite creating a record of number of jobs in 2007 and 2008 (237,000 jobs in 2007 and 202,400 jobs in the first three quarters of 2008) and averaging a growth rate of nearly 10 percent from 2004 to 2007, Singapore was the first East Asian country to fall into a recession from the current global...

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Short-Term Policy Responses to the International Financial Crisis and Risks to Sustainable Medium-Term Policy Frameworks in Asia : Complications Arising from Enduring Global Imbala...

Filardo, Andrew - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

The policy measures taken to date in the Asia-Pacific region are helping to cushion the blow of the global recession. Monetary and fiscal policy stimulus has been strong and there has been considerable attention given to strengthening the financial system. Questions, however, remain about how...

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The Financial Crisis : A Wake-Up Call for Strengthening Regional Monitoring of Financial Markets and Regional Coordination of Financial Sector Policies?

Winkler, Adalbert - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

harmonization and coordination of regulation and supervision, with a strong focus on maturity and currency mismatch problems, would …

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Tsunami in New York Earthquake in Beijing?

He, FAN - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

A butterfly in New York flaps its wingsand may finally cause a storm in BeijingWellthenhow about a devastating tsunami in New York? In the last monththe whole world watched the American financial crisis unfolding day-by-dayRipples from the Wall Street spread to each corner of the global...

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