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Ethnic Chinese Networks in International Trade

Rauch, James E. - 1999

Ethnic Chinese networks, as proxied by the product of ethnic Chinese population shares, are found in 1980 and 1990 to have increased bilateral trade both within Southeast Asia and for other country pairs. Their effects within Southeast Asia are much greater for differentiated than for...

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Is Foreign Direct Investment a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from Japan's FDI in the United States

Branstetter, Lee - 2000

directly test the hypothesis that FDI is a channel of knowledge spillovers for Japanese multinationals undertaking direct … investments in the United States. Using an original firm-level data set on Japanese firms' FDI and innovative activity find … evidence that FDI increases the flow of knowledge spillovers both from and to the investing Japanese firms …

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Troubled Banks, Impaired Foreign Direct Investment : The Role of Relative Access to Credit

Klein, Michael - 2000

: the continued decline in Japanese FDI during a period of stable stock prices and a rapidly appreciating yen. However, when … are able to show that unequal access to credit by Japanese firms can explain the FDI puzzle in the 1990s. We utilize a … unique data set that links individual Japanese firms engaged in FDI to their main banks. Using both bank-level and firm …

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The Credit Crunch in East Asia : What can Bank Excess Liquid Assets Tell us?

Agenor, P.R. - 2000

The paper proposes a two-step approach to assessing the extent to which the fall in credit in crisis-stricken East Asian countries was a supply- or demand-induced phenomenon. The first step is based on the estimation of a demand function for excess liquid assets by commercial banks. Such a...

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International Capital Inflows, Domestic Financial Intermediation and Financial Crises under Imperfect Information

Chinn, Menzie D. - 2000

A model of financial crises in emerging markets based on problems of agency in financial intermediation is developed. This model generates dynamic relationships between foreign capital inflows, domestic investment and domestic bank debt in an endogenous growth model. As a consequence of loan...

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Lessons from the Asian Crisis

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2000

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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Latin America and East Asia in the Context of an Insurance Model of Currency Crises

Chinn, Menzie D. - 1999

This paper focuses on the 1995 Latin American and 1997 East Asian crises using an insurance-based model of financial crises. First the model of Dooley (forthcoming) is described. Second, some empirical evidence for an insurance model is presented. The key variables in this approach include the...

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Before the Fall : Were East Asian Currencies Overvalued?

Chinn, Menzie D. - 1998

I implement two major approaches to identifying the equilibrium exchange rate. First, the concept of purchasing power parity is tested and used to define the equilibrium real exchange rate for the Indonesian rupiah, Korean won, Malaysian ringgit, Philippine peso, Singapore dollar, Taiwanese...

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Is an Integrated Regional Labor Market Emergin in East and Southeast Asia?

Bloom, David E. - 1995

We examine labor market integration in east and southeast Asia (ESEA) during the 1980s, focusing on intraregional labor mobility and on the two other main channels of integration: capital mobility and trade. We find evidence that labor market integration increased sharply among ESEA countries in...

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Nationalism and Economic Exchange : Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations

Fisman, Raymond - 2014

reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer … relative declines during each event window; a symmetric effect is observed for Chinese companies with high Japanese exposure …. The effect on Japanese companies is more pronounced for those operating in industries dominated by Chinese state …

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