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In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...
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affected countries. It focuses on three main countries—Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The analysis shows that there … continuum of effects, with Indonesia most heavily hit, the Philippines the least so, and Thailand somewhere in between. (b … migration has had a major impact. In Indonesia, the weakening of government authority and enforcement powers is also a major …
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The paper distinguishes between the classic or traditional foreign banks with their emphasis on corporate and wholesale banking, and the innovators responding to transition, deregulation or crisis in emerging markets. The innovators come in three varieties—bettors, prospectors and...
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-endowment based trade and economic ties with the secondary advanced economy (first the U.S. and then Japan) played important roles in … the pre-WWII growth of Japan, Southeast Asia's growth in the 1970s and the 1980s, and its economic crisis in the mid-1990s. …
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relationship between exchange rate and stock price in Malaysia, whereas a unidirectional causal relationship running from exchange … rate to stock price in Thailand. The stock markets of these countries are also found to be closely linked, with a feedback …
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The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the United … States of America, Indonesia and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations composed of entities (states or … issue of overall inequality as perceived by citizens within a nation. China and India show rising inequality in terms of …
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: Interventions by Japan's central bank strenghten the dollar against the euro. …
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knowledge for innovation output in Singapore, a small, highly open economy that has traditionally been significantly dependent … Singaporean firms depends disproportionately on technological knowledge produced by MNCs with operational presence in Singapore … universities constitute an insignificant, albeit rapidly growing, source for innovation in Singapore. …
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decomposition of aggregate productivity growth in Singapore over the period 1965-2002. The static shift-share analysis is utilized …
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This study re-examines the validity of relationship between Singapore Dollar-US Dollar exchange rate and the relative … Smooth Transition Autoregressive (ESTAR)- type non-linear mean-reverting adjustment process of the nominal Singapore dollar … Singapore Dollar-US Dollar exchange rate and consumer price index ratio, this study shows that the relationship is in fact non …
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