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Asia countries. Panel cointegrating regression uncovers a significantly positive elasticity of substitution between … government and private consumption, implying on average government and private consumption are substitutes in East Asia. Country … strong substitutes, but they are found to be complements in Indonesia and Singapore. In between is the Philippines which has …
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of the effective exchange rates as more countries applied the AMU peg system in East Asia. Second, the AMU peg system …
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Asia during this century than in any other region or historical period. By introducing demographic variables into an … empirical model of economic growth, this essay shows that this transition has contributed substantially to East Asia's so …-called economic miracle. The 'miracle' occurred in part because East Asia's demographic transition resulted in its working …
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This paper provides an asymmetric information analysis of the recent East Asian crisis. It then outlines several lessons from this crisis. First, there is a strong rationale for an international lender of last resort. Second, without appropriate conditionality for this lending, the moral hazard...
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be more different. Common wisdom has it that on impact Asia endured fiscal austerity imposed by the IMF whereas the IMF … different policies to begin with, the fiscal adjustment in Asia was far more modest than is commonly known and the switch from …
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This paper develops an interpretation of the Asian meltdown focused on moral hazard as the common source of overinvestment, excessive external borrowing, and current account deficits. To the extent that foreign creditors are willing to lend to domestic agents against future bail-out revenue from...
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This paper investigates the potential impacts of the degree of divergence in open macroeconomic policies in the context of the trilemma hypothesis. Using an index that measures the relative policy divergence among the three trilemma policy choices, namely monetary independence, exchange rate...
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In the wake of the 1997-98 financial crises, interest rates in Asia were raised immediately, and then reduced sharply …
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Using the "trilemma indexes" developed by Aizenman et al. (2008) that measure the extent of achievement in each of the three policy goals in the trilemma--monetary independence, exchange rate stability, and financial openness--we examine how policy configurations affect macroeconomic...
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The opening up of an economy to the rest of the world has generally been considered an integral part of economic reform aimed at increasing the role of markets. Until recently, however, very little discussion was devoted to the order in which the capital and current account should be liberalized...
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