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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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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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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on Covid-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration
Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - 2021
using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
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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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Moderate Inflation
Dornbusch, Rudiger; Fischer, Stanley - 2021
Inflation persists at moderate rates of 15-30 percent in all the countries that successfully reduced triple digit inflations in the 1980s. Several other countries, for example Colombia, have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods. In this paper we first set out theories of...
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Decomposing the Great Trade Collapse : Products, Prices, and Quantities in the 2008-2009 Crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2010
, Indonesia, and the United States. When we aggregate across all products, most of the countries analyzed experienced a decline in …
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The Distributional Impacts of Indonesia'S Financial Crisis on Household Welfare : A "Rapid Response" Methodology
Friedman, Jed; Levinsohn, James A. - 2021
Analyzing the distributional impacts of economic crises is important and, unfortunately, an ever more pressing need. If policymakers are to intervene to help those most adversely impacted, then policymakers need to identify those who have been most harmed and the magnitude of that harm....
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