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The Yen and its East Asian Neighbors, 1980-1995 : Cooperation or Competition?

Takagi, Shinji - 2021

By looking at how an East Asian currency moves when the yen fluctuates sharply against the US dollar, we sometimes find that the reaction has been much more significant than would be suggested by the econometric estimates of the weight of the yen in nominal exchange rate determination. Moreover,...

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Recovery and Sustainability in East Asia

Park, Yung Chul; Lee, Jong-Wha - 2021

This paper analyzes the macroeconomic adjustment from the crisis in East Asia in a broad international prospective. The stylized pattern from the previous 160 currency crisis episodes over the period from 1970 to 1995 shows a V-type adjustment of real GDP growth in the years prior to and...

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External Validity in a Stochastic World

Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2016

We examine the generalizability of internally valid estimates of causal effects in a fixed population over time when that population is subject to aggregate shocks. This temporal external validity is shown to depend upon the distribution of the aggregate shocks and the interaction between these...

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Firm-Specific Information and the Efficiency of Investment

Chari, Anusha - 2006

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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Capital Flows in Asia

Ito, Takatoshi - 2021

factors to the role of capital flows in the currency crises in different countries, especially Thailand, Indonesia, and Korea …

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Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work?

Kaplan, Ethan; Rodrik, Dani - 2021

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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Current Account Sustainability : Selected East Asian and Latin American Experiences

Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria; Razin, Assaf - 2021

, Colombia and Mexico -- and three East Asian countries--Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. It identifies a number of potential …

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Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments

de Roux, Nicolás; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - 2022

This paper develops a new method for estimating production-function parameters that can be applied in differentiated-product industries with endogenous quality and variety choice. We take advantage of data on physical quantities of outputs and inputs from the Colombian manufacturing survey,...

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The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization Among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka

de Mel, Suresh - 2014

We conduct a field experiment in Sri Lanka providing informal firms incentives to formalize. Information about the registration process and reimbursement of direct costs has no effect. Payments equivalent to one-half to one month (alternatively, 2 months) of the median firm's profits leads to...

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Household Matters : Revisiting the Returns to Capital Among Female Micro-Entrepreneurs

Bernhardt, Arielle - 2020

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