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Explaining the Twin Crises in Indonesia
Kasri, Rahmatina A. - Fakultas Ekonomi, Universitas Indonesia - 2011
The co-existence of the ‘twin’ banking and currency crises in emerging market economies has raised concerns regarding the underlying causes and potential remedies. Literatures suggest that there are at least three major approaches that could be used to explain the phenomenon: the...
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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced …
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Important Lessons from Studying the Chinese Economy
Chow, Gregory C. - Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department … - 2009
In 1979 the United States and China established normal diplomatic relations, allowing me to visit China and study the … the government of the People’s Republic of China in the 1980s and the 1990s this is an opportune moment for me to … experience of China’s economic reform. At the beginning I should comment on the quality of Chinese official data on which almost …
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The Financial Crisis in Japan – Are There Similarities to the Current Situation?
Mayr, Johannes - In: CESifo Forum 9 (2008) 4, pp. 64-68
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Islamic Investment Funds : An Analysis of Risks and Returns
Bose, Sanjoy - 2008
Islamic finance has become an increasingly popular subject in recent years. Some Islamic investment vehicles have even become popular in the non-Islamic world, although the growth in their popularity has been dampened by lack of knowledge of their existence, their nature and their relative...
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Empirical Exchange Rate Models for Developing Economies : A Study on Pakistan, China and India
Khalid, Syed Mohammad Abdullah - 2008
Developing markets like China, Pakistan and India are becoming extremely important for investments. Therefore, this … Pakistan, China and India for a period of around 20 years. The naiuml;ve random walk model is compared against a model based on …
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Indonesia : Anatomy of a Banking Crisis Two Years of Living Dangerously, 1997-99
Enoch, Charles - 2006
This study looks at the first two years of the banking crisis that erupted in Indonesia in late 1997. It finds that the banking sector was weak at the outset, and that governance problems intensified the crisis and seriously delayed its resolution. Although a strategy was put in place over the...
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The Logic of Financial Westernization in the Middle East
Kuran, Timur - 2013
In the nineteenth century the steps taken to modernize the Middle East's financial system included the legalization of interest, the establishment of secular courts open to both actual and juristic persons, and new banking regulations based largely on Western models. Exploring why they involved...
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Corporate Financing in East Asia Before the 1997 Crash
Dissanaike, Gishan - 2009
Some argue that corporate finance and governance practices were among the root causes of the Asian crisis. It is alleged that high and increasing corporate debt ratios were partly to blame. This claim is overstated: Only South Korea and arguably Thailand had leverage ratios significantly above...
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China's Financial Reform and Opening-Up over the Past Three Decades
Mu, Yibin - 2009
Per the invitation of the 2008 China-US Forum and Gala Organizers, the author shared China's experience on financial … reform and opening-up over the past three decades on a step-by-step basis. During this process, China has created some unique … reflections of China's financial reform and opening-up: (i) an appropriate sequence of reform measures matters; (ii) good …
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