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Financial Inclusion and Financial Stability : Current Policy Issues

Hannig, Alfred; Jansen, Stefan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

The recent financial crisis has shown that financial innovation can have devastating systemic impacts. International standard setters and national regulators response has been a global concerted effort to overhaul and tighten financial regulations. However, at a time of designing stricter...

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Monetary and Financial Cooperation in Asia : Emerging Trends and Prospects

Rajan, Ramkishen S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

Ever since the currency crisis of 1997-98 there has been a great deal of interest in enhancing regional economic cooperation in Asia. It is important to keep in mind that economic regionalism is multidimensional nature. The focus of this paper is on policy initiatives underway in Asia to enhance...

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Insecurities of the old and marginalized : Inflation, Oil Shocks, Financial Crisis and Social Security

Goyal, Ashima - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

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 specific consumption basket of the old, as prices of...

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FDI Investment Incentive System and FDI Inflows : The Philippine Experience

Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

This paper examines the countrys investment incentive program for foreign investors and its success in attracting substantial FDI inflows. The analysis compares the FDI incentive system and FDI performance of the Philippines with other Asian countries. Since it is difficult to untangle the...

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Financial Crisis, Trade Finance, and SMEs : Case of Central Asia

Pasadilla, Gloria O. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

This paper surveys studies of the importance of Central Asian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the economy and their experience during the Russian financial crisis. It also uses survey data from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developments Business Environment and Enterprise...

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Universalizing Complete Access to Finance : Key Conceptual Issues

Rai, Suyash; Ananth, Bindu; Mor, Nachiket - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

In this paper, we present two stylized models of the financial system. We make the case that in order to realize the potential of a well-functioning complete financial market, financial system designers and financial service providers will need to think about ways to deliver financial...

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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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Political Economy of the Financial Crises in Japan & the United States : A Comparative Study on the Bailout of Financial Institutions

Takinami, Hirofumi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

Currently, the United States is suffering from a financial crisis. Japan also struggled with a financial crisis from the late 1990's to the early 2000's. What implications can be drawn from these crisis experiences of the two largest economies in the world? This paper examines, from the...

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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan

Khan, Faheem Jehangir; Javed, Yaser - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

Provision of safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and personal hygiene are vital for the sustainable environmental conditions and reducing the incidence of diarrhoea, malaria, trachoma, hepatitis A & B and morbidity levels. Not having access to water and sanitation is a courteous expression...

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Financial Leverage and Market Volatility with Diverse Beliefs

Guo, Wen-Chung; Wang, Frank Yong; Wu, Ho-Mou - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

We develop a model of asset trading with financial leverage in an economy with a continuum of investors. The investors are assumed to have diverse and rational beliefs in the sense of being compatible with observed data. We show that an increase in leverage ratio may cause the stock price to...

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