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Health Economics : some stylized facts

ULMANN, Philippe - EconWPA - 2003

The study of the stylized facts of economic growth has allowed an advance of this field of economic analysis in its empirical and theorical works. Today, Health Economics is faced with new requirements of society, i.e. better care at a sustainable cost. Furthermore, since the problems linked...

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Explaining the Real Exchange Rate during Sudden Stops and Tranquil Periods

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This paper untangles the causes behind real exchange rate devaluation events with particular attention paid to the Sudden Stop of capital flows. By utilizing cumulative impulse response function and variance decomposition analysis, we argue that there is the asymmetric response across Sudden...

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Are Asian Real Exchange Rates Stationary?

Liew, Venus Khim-sen; Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi; … - EconWPA - 2003

By applying the newly developed nonlinear stationary test advanced by Kapetanois et al. [Journal of Econometrics 112 (2003) 359 - 379] in examining the stationary property of 11 Asian real exchange rates, this paper rejects unit root in 8 US dollar based and 6 Japanese yen based rates, whereas...

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Book Review--Doing Business in Asia’s Booming “China Triangle”

Kumar, Deepak - EconWPA - 2005

The book encapsulates the ways and means of doing business with China, and the opportunities out there. It reveals how China has transformed itself for the investors by creating a friendly environment; but,nevertheless, cultural and social aspects must not be forgotten while dealing with them....

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Comparison between Asian, Russian and Turkish financial crises

Lukkarila, Johanna - EconWPA - 2004

, ie third generation theories, for the crisis episodes in Asia. It also compares the theories and Asian events to …

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THE WORLD ECONOMIES AND DEVELOPMENT GOALS:AN ARCHITECTURAL POLICY FRAMEWORK

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Are Optimal Currency Areas Optimal for All? A Reassessment of the Case for Asian Monetary Union

Saxena, Sweta C. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper is a pioneering attempt to include India with east and Southeast Asia to study the existence of the economic … also recognizes the importance of yen for the success of the monetary union in Asia. …

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Wavelet Multiresolution Analysis of High-Frequency Asian FX Rates, Summer 1997

LOS, CORNELIS A.; KARUPPIAH, JEYANTHI - EconWPA - 2004

FX pricing processes are nonstationary and their frequency characteristics are time-dependent. Most do not conform to geometric Brownian motion, since they exhibit a scaling law with a Hurst exponent between zero and 0.5 and fractal dimensions between 1.5 and 2. This paper uses wavelet...

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