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A bivariate vector-autoregression (VAR) model is used to test causal relations between the current account and the capital account in four emerging market economies. The results show that high capital mobility could be a major cause of current account instability. Therefore, macroeconomic policy...
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This paper assesses the effect of constrained trade finance on trade flows in countries undergoing financial and balance of payments crises. Most of the countries that had a major crisis had a significant trade contraction, while trade-related finance declined sharply. However, trade may also be...
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, money base velocity, and the temporary component of the real exchange rate (TCRER) is estimated for Korea, Mexico, the … Philippines, and Thailand. TCRER movements are associated only weakly with shocks to capital flows. Negative shocks to U ….S. interest rates lead to capital inflows in Asia and a TCRER appreciation in the Philippines and Thailand. Positive shocks to …
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the long term. We illustrate its features by applying it to the LAC5 (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico …
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-income Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It explores the role played by several … different subnational levels of steady state. For the latter countries and Chile, convergence is also higher after controlling …
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This paper constructs new business cycle indices for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico based on common dynamic …
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in absolute terms and as a fraction of real economic activity. Empirical results using data for Mexico, Chile, Argentina …, and Israel support a negative statistically significant relationship between credit and inflation for Mexico, Argentina …, and Chile, but not for Israel. In addition, for both Chile and Mexico, dummy variables representing periods of inflation …
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The experiences of seven countries that have undergone banking crises show that crises have significant implications for the short-run stability of the demand for money, the money multiplier, the transmission mechanism, and the signal variables of monetary policy. Monetary and credit...
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This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in accelerating economic growth in low-income countries. It looks at big long-lasting drives in public capital spending, as these were arguably clear and exogenous policy decisions. On...
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