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worldtradable goods prices. Indeed, trade prices were fallingthroughout Asia by similar magnitudes, regardless of howmuch each …
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[...]In our view, this apparently surprising immunity of the U.S.economy to the Asia crisis reflects the fact that the …
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Pan-Asianism in Japanese history has not received much scholarly attention so far. Indeed, as some scholars have pointed out (Beasley 1987a), it is questionable whether the notion of an ideology that only existed as a loose set of ideas and, moreover, had its foundations in European concepts,...
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monetaryregime chosen, though not necessarily on monetary shocks. Wegive a simple account of exchange rate volatility in terms … ofmonetary policy rules, we provide an explanation of the relationbetween nominal exchange rate volatility and …
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This paper offers empirical evidence that real exchange rate volatility can have a significant impact on the long … with relatively low levels of financial development, exchange rate volatility generally reduces growth, whereas for … rate volatility, and outliers. We also oer a simple monetary growth model in which real exchange rate uncertainty …
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Can pegging reduce real as well as nominal, and multilateral as well as bilateralexchange rate volatility? We …
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Real effective exchange rate volatility is examined for 90 countries using monthlydata from January 1990 to June 2006 …. Volatility decreases with openness tointernational trade and per capita GDP, and increases with inflation, particularlyunder a … horizontal peg or band, and with terms-of-trade volatility. The choice ofexchange rate regime matters... …
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A meta-analysis explains the variation in estimated trade effects of technical barriersto trade broadly defined, using available estimates from the empirical international tradeliterature, and accounting for data sampling and methodology differences. Agriculture and foodindustries tend to be...
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This paper reviews the stylized facts regarding the levels of human capital investments and the returnsto those investments in developing countries. These returns are substantial and are pervasive acrossdemographic groups. Returns are comparable between men and women and between urban and...
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We conduct a comparative analysis of Labor Market Policies and outcomes for the EUmember states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in LaborMarket Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004...
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