Co-movement (synchronicity) in inflation rates among a set of 13 emerging and developing countries in Asia is shown to … food-inflation co-movement. By contrast, cross-country co-movement in core inflation is weak and the aforementioned … inflation. In the context of the growing literature on the globalization of inflation, these results suggest that common weather …

This paper provides an overview of inflation developments in Vietnam in the years following the doi moi reforms, and … uses empirical analysis to answer two key questions: (i) what are the key drivers of inflation in Vietnam, and what role … does monetary policy play? and (ii) why has inflation in Vietnam been persistently higher than in most other emerging …

The paper compares trends in financial integration within Asia with those in industrialized countries and other …

. But, after the crisis, Asia's sovereign spreads normalized, despite the debt crisis in the euro area, reflecting a fall in …

paper is to assess whether this is true for emerging Asia's economies. Using a dynamic factor model and a structural vector … auto-regression model, we show that long-term interest rates in Asia are indeed predominantly driven by global factors …-term interest rates. Nevertheless, the monetary transmission mechanism, though effective, is somewhat weaker in Asia during the …

determinants, which include trade and financial linkages, as well as policies. In line with Asia's growing role in the global …

examines the impact of that deleveraging on credit supply in recipient economies, with a particular focus on Asia …, the credit supply response in Asia was only about half the size of the response in non-Asian countries, possibly due to a …

Net capital flows to emerging Asia rebounded at a record pace following the global financial crisis, raising concerns …

developing Asia, have strengthened economic links between the Far East and Saudi Arabia. Second, financial sector development in … developing Asia's growth cycle for the Saudi economy, while the latter suggests greater influence of U.S. monetary policy on the … non-oil economy through the peg to the U.S dollar. As a result, divergence between the growth cycles in developing Asia …