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Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

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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Factor Endowments, Trade Direction, and Growth Performances of the Americas and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997

-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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Does Asian foreign exchange intervention really hurt Europe? Lessons from a three-asset portfolio model

Dullien, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005

: Interventions by Japan's central bank strenghten the dollar against the euro. …

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Supply Side Structural Change

Cordoba, Juan C. - EconWPA - 2002

The interest rate and the rate of economic growth are often regarded as roughly constant as economies grow. Moreover, the agricultural sector and rural population typically shrink. We show that an otherwise standard growth model that includes a backward and an advanced sector can account for...

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Power Law Signature in Indonesian Population

Mulianta, Ivan; Situngkir, Hokky; Surya, Yohanes - EconWPA - 2004

The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in two regional terms, i.e.: kabupaten and kotamadya. It is interestingly found that the rank in all kabupaten respect to the population does not have fat tail properties, while in...

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Mass Attitudes Toward Financial Crisis and Economic Reform in Korea

Hayo, Bernd; Shin, Doh - EconWPA - 2002

This paper addresses an aspect of the financial crisis in South Korea that has not been dealt with in depth. The question that will be analyzed is: how does the general population perceive the crisis? In attempting to answer this question we rely on new representative survey data, covering the...

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A Comprehensive Analysis of Economic Community in East Asia: Japan's Leadership in the Regional Development on both Economic and Financial Sides

Kitagawa, Masaomi - EconWPA - 2005

common market among ASEAN, China, South Korea, and Japan by establishing a free trade area covering the entire region. As the … two major countries in the region, in the arrangement, China and Japan would have centered roles in promoting economic … cooperation in East Asia. However, it is practically impossible to decide either China or Japan is capable of taking the …

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The Case for Managed Judges: Learning from Japan after the Political Upheaval of 1993

Ramseyer, J. Mark - EconWPA - 2005

Although the executive branch appoints Japanese Supreme Court justices as it does in the United States, a personnel office under the control of the Supreme Court rotates lower court Japanese judges through a variety of posts. This creates the possibility that politicians might indirectly use the...

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Business Cycle Accounting-How important are technology shocks as a propagation mechanism? Some new evidence from Japan

Chakraborty, Suparna - EconWPA - 2005

technique of business cycle accounting (BCA) and some new evidence from Japan. BCA technique enables us to model the economy as … Japan during the period 1980 to 2000, I find that though technology shocks play an important role in propagating market …

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Accounting for the 'Lost Decade' in Japan

Chakraborty, Suparna - EconWPA - 2004

There is no debate amongst economists that Japan performed poorly during the1990s. This can be seen in falling growth … 1990s. So, any model that tries to focus on what went wrong in Japan in 1990s would do well to focus on frictions on …

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