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currency crisis. Different categories of investors have significant differences as well as similarities. First, non …-resident institutional investors are always positive feedback traders, whereas resident investors before the crisis were negative feedback … (contrarian) traders but switch to be positive feedback traders during the crisis. Second, individual investors herd significantly …
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crisis. In sum, the offshore funds are not especially worrisome monsters. …
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behavior before and during a currency crisis. First, non-resident institutional investors are always positive feedback traders …, whereas resident investors were negative feedback (contrarian) traders before the crisis but switch to be positive feedback … traders during the crisis. Second, individual investors herd significantly more than institutional investors. Non …
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disparity only after the Asian financial crisis. These results suggest that the nature of corporate governance in international …
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It is often asserted that a flexible exchange rate regime would facilitate current account adjustment. Using data on over 170 countries over the 1971–2005 period, we examine this assertion systematically. We find no strong, robust, or monotonic relationship between exchange rate regime...
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current account imbalances and possibly to the recent global financial crisis. This paper proposes a theory of excess savings …
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China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account surplus. The mainstream explanation for high corporate savings is a combination of windfall profits in state-owned firms, especially in resource sectors, and mis-governance of...
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Using accounting data for 7722 non-financial firms in 42 countries, we examine how the 2007-2009 crisis affected firm … benchmarks and firm-specific sensitivities estimated prior to the crisis. We find that the crisis had a bigger negative impact on …
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Motivated by recent empirical work, this paper formalizes a theory of competitive savings - an arms race in household savings for mating competition that is made more fierce by an increase in the male-to-female ratio in the pre-marital cohort. Relative to the empirical work, the theory can...
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While a reduction in import barriers in a partial equilibrium may be thought to lead to an increase in imports and a reduction in trade surplus, the general equilibrium effect can go in the opposite direction. We study how trade reforms affect current accounts by embedding a modified...
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