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Restrictions on international capital transactions and other payments are usually designed to limit volatile short-term capital flows ("hot money") and stabilize the exchange rate. Their imposition, however, may have the opposite effect by inadvertently signaling the continuation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320846
The coincidence of banking and currency crises associated with the Asian financial crisis has drawn renewed attention to causal and common factors linking the two phenomena. In this paper, we analyze the incidence and underlying causes of banking and currency crises in 90 industrial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320867
Are countries with unregulated capital flows more vulnerable to currency crises? Efforts to answer this question properly must control for "self selection" bias since countries with liberalized capital accounts may also have more sound economic policies and institutions that make them less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320915
The coincidence of banking and currency crises associated with the Asian financial crisis has drawn renewed attention to causal and common factors linking the two phenomena. In this paper, we analyze the incidence and underlying causes of banking and currency crises in 90 industrial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233021
Restrictions on international capital transactions and other payments are usually designed to limit volatile short-term capital flows (“hot money”) and stabilize the exchange rate. Their imposition, however, may have the opposite effect by inadvertently signaling the continuation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749932
Are countries with unregulated capital flows more vulnerable to currency crises? Efforts to answer this question properly must control for “self selection” bias since countries with liberalized capital accounts may also have more sound economic policies and institutions that make them less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005225510