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contributed more to monetary cooperation in Asia than emphasis on export promotion …
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This paper analyzes the macroeconomic adjustment from the crisis in East Asia in a broad international prospective. The … currency crisis episodes. However, the degree of initial contraction and following recovery has been far greater in East Asia … than what the cross-country evidence predicts. This paper argues that the sharper adjustment pattern in East Asia is …
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factors to the role of capital flows in the currency crises in different countries, especially Thailand, Indonesia, and Korea …This paper characterizes the capital flows in Asia before and after the Asian currency crisis of 1997. Differences in …
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Malaysia recovered from the Asian financial crisis swiftly after the imposition of capital controls in September 1998 …. The fact that Korea and Thailand recovered in parallel has been interpreted as suggesting that capital controls did not … play a significant role in facilitating Malaysia's rebound. However, the financial crisis was deepening in Malaysia in the …
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We develop a method for identifying and quantifying the fiscal channels that help finance government spending shocks. We define fiscal shocks as surprises in defense spending and show that they are more precisely identified when defense stock data are used in addition to aggregate macroeconomic...
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We examine the factors that determine the differences in ex ante returns on equities in eleven Pacific Basin countries. Our concern is whether real return differentials are primarily caused by nominal return differentials or expected changes in real exchange rates. We find that nominal return...
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using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
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Past government spending in Japan is currently imposing a significant fiscal burden that is reflected in a net debt to …
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We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period following stock market liberalizations, the growth rate of the typical firm's capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by an average of 5.4 percentage points....
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The paper studies the solvency of the Indian public sector and the eventual monetization and inflation implied by stabilization of the debt-GNP ratio without any changes in the primary deficit. The nonstationarity of the discounted public debt suggests that indefinite continuation of the pattern...
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