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Insurance Underwriter or Financial Development Fund : What Role for Reserve Pooling in Latin America?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2006

The accumulation of international reserves by emerging markets raises the question of how to best utilize these funds. This paper explores two routes through which the pooling of reserves could enhance stability and welfare. First, the reserve pool could be used for emergency lending in response...

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Who Should Supervise? The Structure of Bank Supervision and the Performance of the Financial System

Eichengreen, Barry - 2011

We assemble data on the structure of bank supervision, distinguishing supervision by the central bank from supervision … countries from 1998 through 2010, we find that supervisory responsibility tends to be assigned to the central bank in low …. Countries with independent supervisors other than the central bank have fewer nonperforming loans as a share of GDP even after …

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International Economic Policy : Was There a Bush Doctrine?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2008

While many political scientists and diplomatic historians see the Bush presidency as a distinctive epoch in American foreign policy, we argue that there was no Bush Doctrine in foreign economic policy. The Bush administration sought to advance a free trade agenda but could not avoid the use of...

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International Policy Coordination : The Long View

Eichengreen, Barry - 2011

This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...

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The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth

Eichengreen, Barry - 2011

While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts about the quality and sustainability of this service-sector growth and its implications for economic development. We show, consistent with the views of the sceptics, that while...

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The Two Waves of Service Sector Growth

Eichengreen, Barry - 2009

The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...

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The Impact of China on the Exports of Other Asian Countries

Eichengreen, Barry - 2004

We analyze the impact of China's growth on the exports of other Asian countries. Our innovation is to distinguish the increase in China's demand for imports from its increased penetration of export markets. Using the gravity model, we disaggregate among commodity types and account for the...

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Capital Account Liberalization and Growth : Was Mr. Mahathir Right?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2003

Much ink has been spilled over the connections between capital account liberalization and growth. One reason that previous studies have been inconclusive, we show, is their failure to account for the impact of crises on growth and for the capacity of controls to limit those disruptive output...

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When Does Capital Account Liberalization Help More than It Hurts?

Arteta, Carlos - 2001

In this paper we reconsider the evidence on capital account liberalization and growth. While we find indications of a positive association, the effects vary with time, with how capital account liberalization is measured, and with how the relationship is estimated. The evidence that the effects...

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Growth Slowdowns Redux : New Evidence on the Middle-Income Trap

Eichengreen, Barry - 2013

We analyze the incidence and correlates of growth slowdowns in fast-growing middle-income countries, extending the analysis of an earlier paper (Eichengreen, Park and Shin 2012). We continue to find dispersion in the per capita income at which slowdowns occur. But in contrast to our earlier...

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