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This paper provides an asymmetric information analysis of the recent East Asian crisis. It then outlines several lessons from this crisis. First, there is a strong rationale for an international lender of last resort. Second, without appropriate conditionality for this lending, the moral hazard...
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nearly 600 billion dollars, while China's official net creditor position to the rest of the world is overstated by about 50 …
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We document the rise of China in offshore capital markets. Chinese firms use global tax havens to access foreign … capital both in equity and bond markets. In the last twenty years, China's presence went from raising a negligible amount of …
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As a bridge between Chinese mainland and international financial markets, the Stock Connect program allows investors on both sides to gain mutual access. By analyzing how cross-border flows respond to macro-related shocks, we show that compared with possibly homemade foreign investors, genuine...
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Weaknesses in banking systems are rooted in government credit-allocation preferences that prove unsupportable in private markets. Losses that preferential loans impose on lending banks and on the governmental safety net can be covered up for awhile, but not indefinitely. A silent run begins when...
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First generation models of speculative attacks show that apparently random speculative attacks on policy regimes can be fully consistent with rational and well-informed speculative behavior. Unfortunately, models driven by a conflict between exchange rate policy and other macroeconomic...
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decades, whereas China's has been on a rising trend, yet the share of trade among Asian economies with the dollar zone …. One big dollar-zone economy that has been increasing its presence in Asia is China. However, China has been recently … making efforts to "internationalize" its currency, the yuan (RMB). Hence, if China succeeds in its internationalization …
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