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We use the demise of silver-based standards in the 19th century to explore price dynamics when a commodity-based money ceases to function as a global unit of account. We develop a general equilibrium model of the global economy with gold and silver money. Calibration of the model shows that...
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A sketch of the International Monetary Fund's 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over time along multiple dimensions. This history is primarily consistent with a “demand driven” theory of institutional change, as the needs of its clients and the type of crisis...
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The paper examines the timing of exit from the interwar gold-exchange standard for a panel of European countries, based on monthly data over the period January 1928 - December 1936. I show that exit from gold can be understood in terms of a trade-off between a limited set of factors commonly...
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Southeast Asia. In view of slowdown in growth and even recession in advanced economies as a result of the adverse impact of the … toward rising middle class of Asia. To successfully implement the new initiative of “Make in India”, India needs to be …
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emerging Asia there is more regional than global integration, and that the former has become even stronger in the post-2008 …
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Asia, particularly its major economies has witnessed slower growth in recent years. To make Asia more economically … proposed. This initiative plans to create an economic zone covering Asia, Europe and Africa. To successfully promote and … finance greater physical connectivity, at the pan-Asian, sub-regional and national levels, Asia will require a strong and …
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This paper examines global and regional stock market integration in Asia at both the aggregate and disaggregate …
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economic growth in East Asia. Developed Asia produces technology-intensive intermediate goods and capital goods and ships them …, the ability of the rest of the world to absorb Asia's exports has decreased. Export production in some Asian countries has … production networks in Asia. It then discusses how developing Asian countries could leverage production networks to facilitate …
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Despite remarkable growth during the last decade, Asia and the Pacific still faces extensive basic infrastructure needs …
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We analyze the transmission of global financial crisis to business cycles in China and India. The pattern of business cycles in emerging Asian economies generally displays a low degree of synchronization with the OECD countries, which is consistent with the decoupling hypothesis. By contrast,...
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