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Econometric analysis and forecasting of Latvia's balance of payments

Benkovskis, Konstantins - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The main goal of the promotion paper is to forecast Latvia's current account, and using this forecast to define …, whether the current account deficit is a significant risk factor for Latvian economy. The modelling of Latvia's current … crisis during the time period before Latvia's accession into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The econometric models …

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A Modern History of Exchange Rate Arrangements: Chartbook, 1946-2001

Reinhart, Carmen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This is the chartbook of individual country exchange rate histories and their experience with parallel markets, 1946-2001 that accompanies "The Modern History of Exchange Rate Arrangements: A Reinterpretation." We develop a novel system of reclassifying historical exchange rate regimes. One key...

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Fifty Years of Malaysian Economic Development:Policies and Achievements

Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Malaysia is a small country but has big achievement in economic development to its credit. This year (August 2007) the country celebrates the completion of the first 50 years of its independence. It is in the fitness of things that this paper takes a look at its economic achievements over the...

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A Modern History of Exchange Rate Arrangements: Parallel Markets and Dual and Multiple Exchange Rates

Reinhart, Carmen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

There are cases where the parallel (or secondary) exchange rate applies only to a few limited transactions. An example is the “switch pound” in the United Kingdom during September 1950 through April 1967. However, it is not unusual for dual or parallel markets (legal or otherwise) to account...

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Indian Capital Control Liberalization: Evidence from NDF Markets

Hutchison, Michael; Kendall, Jake; Pasricha, Gurnain Kaur; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The Indian government has taken a number of incremental measures to liberalize legal and administrative impediments to international capital movements in recent years. This paper analyzes the extent to which the effectiveness of capital controls in India, measured by the domestic less net...

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Recent financial crisis in Malaysia: response, results, challenges

Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

This paper was one of the first writings that appeared on the subject and presented at a local conference while pending publication with the Indian Economic Journal.After a brief Introduction, Section 2 discusses broadly the process used for generating the data used for analysis as also the...

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Managing the Process of Removing Capital Controls: What Does the Literature Suggest?

Moore, Winston - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Economic theory suggests that opening the capital account should allow a country to diversify away economic shocks, increase capital inflows, expand economic growth and efficiency and encourage governments to pursue good policies, the empirical evidence with regard to these theoretical...

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Indian Capital Control Liberalization: Evidence from NDF Markets

Hutchison, Michael; Kendall, Jake; Pasricha, Gurnain; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper analyzes the extent to which the effectiveness of capital controls in India have changed over time. We begin by calculating deviations from covered interest parity utilizing data from the 3-month offshore non-deliverable rupiah forward (NDF) market. Then, using the self-exciting...

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Capital Controls: A Meta-analysis Approach

Magud, Nicolas; Reinhart, Carmen; Rogoff, Kenneth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In this note we summarize our recent paper, where we delved into the details of this apple-to-oranges problem with the aim of defining a minimum common ground. We begin our analysis by explicitly documenting the kinds of measures that are construed as capital controls. Along the way, we describe...

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All That’s Old is New Again: Capital Controls and the Macroeconomic Determinants of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets

Hartwell, Christopher A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

While a growing amount of economic evidence has emerged that capital controls as a tool may both be ineffective for many of their stated purposes, there has been little examination of their long-term effects that can harm rather than help entrepreneurship in emerging markets. The purpose of this...

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