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Spillovers from Japan's Unconventional Monetary Policy to Emerging Asia : A Global VAR Approach
Ganelli, Giovanni - 2016
We use a Global VAR model to study spillovers from the Bank of Japan's quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE) on … emerging Asia. Our main result is that, despite an appreciation of their currencies vis-a-vis the yen, the impact on emerging … Asia's GDP tended to be positive and significant. Our results suggest that the positive effect of QQE on expectations, by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977736
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The Role of Newly Industrialized Economies in Global Value Chains
Boddin, Dominik - 2016
In light of increased vertical specialization and the dominance of trade in intermediates rather than final goods, this paper seeks to raise awareness of the limitations of traditional trade measures on a gross output basis. To do so, this paper uses the WIOD, a world input output table, as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977760
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Surging Capital Flows to Emerging Asia : Facts, Impacts, and Responses
Balakrishnan, Ravi - 2012
Net capital flows to emerging Asia rebounded at a record pace following the global financial crisis, raising concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102274
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Inflation Co-Movement in Emerging and Developing Asia : The Monsoon Effect
Blagrave, Patrick - 2019
Co-movement (synchronicity) in inflation rates among a set of 13 emerging and developing countries in Asia is shown to … developing economies, in Asia at least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865120
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Potential Growth in Emerging Asia
Anand, Rahul - 2014
Using three distinct approaches - statistical filtering, production function, and multivariate model - this paper estimates potential growth for China, India, and five ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) during 1993–2013. The main findings include: (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059855
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What Can Boost Female Labor Force Participation in Asia?
Kinoshita, Yuko - 2015
Both Japan and Korea are trying to boost female labor force participation (FLFP) as they face the challenges of a … towards non-regular employment despite women's high education levels. This paper empirically examines what helps Japan and … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024437
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Can Foreign Exchange Intervention Stem Exchange Rate Pressures from Global Capital Flow Shocks?
Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2015
Many emerging market economies have relied on foreign exchange intervention (FXI) in response to gross capital inflows. In this paper, we study whether FXI has been an effective tool to dampen the effects of these inflows on the exchange rate. To deal with endogeneity issues, we look at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016592
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The Trade Impact of China on EMU : is it Even Across Members?
Mikkelsen, Uffe - 2012
This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected euro area countries. We use a Ricardian-gravity trade model to estimate sectoral competitiveness in individual euro area countries. Simulations on the impact of productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098585
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Fear of Service Outsourcing : Is it Justified?
Amiti, Mary - 2011
The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757114
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Global Value Chains and the Exchange Rate Elasticity of Exports
Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali - 2016
This paper analyzes how the formation of Global Value Chains (GVCs) has affected the exchange rate elasticity of exports. Using a panel framework covering 46 countries over the period 1996-2012, we first find some suggestive evidence that the elasticity of real manufacturing exports to the Real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999740