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The Trade Performance of Asian Economies During and Following the 2008 Financial Crisis
Wang, Jing - 2010
This paper documents and compares the trade performance of the major Asian economies both during and following the 2008 … separate country data files giving monthly trade performance for both the import and export sides throughout the crisis. We use … these to compare the size, speed and acceleration of trade compression with the onset of the crisis, and the reverse effects …
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Linking External Sector Imbalances and Changing Financial Instability before the 2008 Financial Crisis
Whalley, John - 2011
Crisis. We use the sum of the absolute value of external sector imbalances across countries (the trade imbalance, or the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461012
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Fetters of Gold and Paper
Eichengreen, Barry - 2010
We describe in this essay why the gold standard and the euro are extreme forms of fixed exchange rates, and how these policies had their most potent effects in the worst peaceful economic periods in modern times. While we are lucky to have avoided another catastrophe like the Great Depression in...
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