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Assessing Indicators of Currency Crisis in Ethiopia: Signals Approach
Megersa, kelbesa; Cassimon, Danny - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Currency crises, generally defined as rapid depreciation of a local currency or loss of foreign exchange reserves, are common incidents in modern monetary systems. Due to their repeated occurrence and severity, they have earned wide coverage by both theoretical and empirical literature. However,...
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External constraint and financial crises with balance sheet effects
Dai, Meixing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper investigates the dynamic implications of Krugman’s (1999) model of financial crises with balance-sheet effects, which has a considerable impact on the literature as well as the teaching of international financial crisis. By explicitly taking account of wealth accumulation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529247
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Iceland's Economic and Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Implications
Spruk, Rok - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Iceland experienced a significant financial meltdown and subsequent economic downturn after the 2008/2009 financial crisis struck the country. It had been the worst crisis ever experienced by a small country from the late 20th century onwards. Since 1980s, Iceland's macroeconomic stability had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919755
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Crises and the recent recession
Tatom, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The United States economy has suffered over the past four years from crises in mortgage foreclosures and in financial markets, as well as a long recession that some have referred to as the Great Recession. The links between these events, or more broadly the causes, extent and effects of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220099
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Estimating the Shape of Economic Crises under Heterogeneity
Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....
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Towards a pure state theory of money
Ballinger, Clint - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
serves as money in most banking systems in the world is privately created credit money. We can compare the current most …
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Was kostet die Krise? Mittelfristige Wachstumsperspektiven in Deutschland, 2010 - 2014
Buchen, Teresa; Carstensen, Kai; Henzel, Steffen; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
2009 ist eine Diskussion darüber entbrannt, inwieweit die derzeitige Finanzkrise Einfluss auf die mittelfristigen … Zeitreihenmodellen abgeschätzt. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass das Niveau des Produktionspotenzials aufgrund der Finanzkrise … durch eine Stagnation des technischen Fortschritts verursacht wird. Die Auswirkungen der Finanzkrise auf die mittelfristige …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472806
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Die Entwicklungschancen Lateinamerikas: ein Blick über die Argentinien-Krise hinaus
Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002
Der Beitrag analysiert die Argentinien-Krise, vergleicht die makroökonomische Entwicklung von Argentinien, Brasilien, Chile und Mexiko seit der Mexiko-Krise und entwickelt Indikatoren zur Beurteilung der Entwicklungschancen dieser Länder. Für Argentinien wie für Brasilien, Chile und Mexiko...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755209
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Korea investment corporation: its origin and evolution
Kim, Woochan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper, I give a detailed account of the creation and the evolution of Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) – a sovereign wealth fund established in 2005 by the Korean government. In doing so, I highlight three of its unique features. First, the case of KIC effectively shows the problem...
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The Art of Gracefully Exiting a Peg
Asici, Ahmet; Wyplosz, Charles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
The wave of liberalization of capital movements, which swept Europe in the 1980s and the emerging market countries in the 1990s, has given rise to the two-corner strategy. According to this view only two exchange rate regimes are sustainable: hard pegs and fully flexible rates. Soft pegs in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260122