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Exchange rate misalignments: A comparison of China today against recent historical experiences of Japan, Germany, Singapore and Taiwan

´He, Xinhua; Qin, Duo; Liu, Yimeng - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2011

The familiar claim of Chinese currency manipulation is generally asserted without reference to empirical evidence. To investigate the legitimacy of the claim, we ask if the undervalued misalignment found in the real effective exchange rate (REER) of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) over the past...

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Bilaterial equilibrium exchange rates of EU accession countries against the euro

Rahn, Jörg - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2003

We apply BEER and PEER approaches to calculate real equilibrium exchange rates for five EU accession countries in central and east Europe. Bilateral nominal equilibrium exchange rates against the euro are obtained through algebraic transformation of the results. Panel cointegration techniques...

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Exchange rate regimes, foreign exchange volatility and export performance in Central and Eastern Europe: Just another blur project?

Égert, Balázs; Morales-Zumaquero, Amalia - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2005

This paper attempts to analyze the direct impact of exchange rate volatility on the export performance of ten Central and Eastern European transition economies as well as its indirect impact via changes in exchange rate regimes. Not only aggregate but also bilateral and sectoral export flows are...

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Economic growth across Chinese provinces: in search of innovation-driven gains

Funke, Michael; Yu, Hao - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2009

innovations explicitly into a production function and evaluate their contribution to economic growth in 1993 - 2006. The empirical … results highlight the importance and the interaction between local and external research. The evidence indicates that growth …

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Is corruption an efficient grease?

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Weill, Laurent - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2008

This paper tests whether corruption may act as an efficient grease for the wheels of an oth-erwise deficient institutional framework. We analyze the interaction between aggregate efficiency, corruption, and other dimensions of governance for a panel of 54 developed and developing countries....

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The Determinants of Vulnerability to the Global Financial Crisis 2008 to 2009: Credit Growth and Other Sources of Risk

Feldkircher, Martin - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2012

growth in shaping the real economy's response to the crisis. Specifically, a 1% increase in pre-crisis lending translates … into a 0.2% increase in the cumulative loss in real output. Moreover, the combination of pronounced growth in lending ahead … growth in real GDP in parallel with strong growth of credit particularly exacerbated the effects of the recent crisis on the …

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Is mining fuelling long-run growth in Russia? Industry productivity growth trends since 1995

Timmer, Marcel P.; Voskoboynikov, Ilya B. - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2013

GDP per capita growth rates in Russia have been among the highest in the world since the mid-1990s. Previous growth … accounting research suggests that this was mainly driven by multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth. In this paper we analyse for … the first time the drivers of Russian growth for thirty-four industries over the period 1995 to 2008. We pay in particular …

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The credibility of Hong Kong’s currency board system: Looking through the prism of MS-VAR models with time-varying transition probabilities

Blagov, Boris; Funke, Michael - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2014

This paper takes seriously the idea that the coefficients of a VAR and the variance of shocks may be time-varying and so employs a Markov regime-switching VAR model to describe and analyse the time-varying credibility of Hong Kong’s currency board system. The endogenously estimated discrete...

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The offshore renminbi exchange rate: Microstructure and links to the onshore market

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Rime, Dagfinn - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2014

The offshore renminbi (CNH) exchange rate is the exchange rate of the Chinese currency transacted outside China. We study the CNH exchange rate dynamics and its links with onshore exchange rates. Using a specialized microstructure dataset, we find that CNH is significantly affected by its order...

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Determinants of real exchange rates: An empirical investigation

Kakkar, Vikas; Yan, Isabel - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2014

The large and persistent deviations of nominal exchange rates from their purchasing power parities comprise a key stylized fact in international economics. This paper sheds light on these persistent deviations by combining two disparate strands of empirical work. The first strand focuses on real...

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