Can extending social welfare expenditures promote economic growth? This issue has been discussed extensively, with some research pointing to net benefits while others find a net negative impact. Insight can be gained by careful analysis of several sub-questions. For example, for two countries...

This paper briefly surveys the development of international finance theories after the 1960s. The important theories reviewed in this paper include: exchange rate dynamics, policy pre-announcement, first-generation currency crises, intertemporal optimizing model, exchange rate target zones,...

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This paper examines the short-run and long-run neutrality of money using methodology suggested by King and Watson (1997) on quarterly data from South Korea and Taiwan (King and Watson (1997), Testing Long-Run Neutrality, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, 83(3), 69-103). A body...