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The Growth Comeback in Developing Economies; A New Hope or Back to the Future?
Bluedorn, John C; Duttagupta, Rupa; Guajardo, Jaime; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
Growth takeoffs in developing economies have rebounded in the past two decades. Although recent takeoffs have lasted longer than takeoffs before the 1990s, a key question is whether they could unravel like some did in the past. This paper finds that recent takeoffs are associated with stronger...
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Nonfinancial Firms in Latin America; A Source of Vulnerability?
Gonzalez, Maria - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
We examine corporate sector vulnerabilities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. First, we identify stylized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242251
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Analysis of transportation and logistics processes for soybeans in Brazil
Fliehr, Olivia - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2013
improve the national infrastructure, particularly in the ports in northern Brazil, could lead to large improvements in the … in Brasilien zu ermitteln, wurde eine Markt- und Kostenanalyse für vier Anbaugebiete im Sorriso-Santos-Korridor mit … auf dem Weltmarkt gehört Brasilien zu den Hauptversorgern der weltweiten Sojanachfrage. Der Einfluss von Logistik und …
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Choice and Performance of Exchange Rate Regimes in Developing Countries: The Case of Chile
Gouvêa, Miguel; Duarte, António Portugal - In: Contemporary Issues in the Integration Processes of …
Although an optimal exchange rate regime is dependent on country’s characteristics, intermediate regimes, especially the Managed Floating Plus (MFP) regime and Basket, Band and Crawling Peg (BBC) regime, seem to be viable options for developing countries. This work aims to analyze the issue of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969106
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Intolerable Surges, Exchange Rate Regimes and Sudden Stops of Capital Inflows
Feith, Ayachi; Youssef, Bhar - In: European Integration Process in Western Balkan Countries
This chapter investigates the effect of the exchange regime on the likelihood of sudden stops. A panel probit analysis is conducted on the data of 43 developing countries from 1980 to 2010. The test investigates the interaction of surges and the exchange regime and their potential impact of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969114
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Influence of Regulatory Framework and Exchange Rate Regimes on Financial Stability in Western Balkan Countries
Grubisic, Zoran; Ivanovic, Perisa - In: European Integration Process in Western Balkan Countries
This chapter aims to address influence of regulatory framework and exchange rate regimes on financial stability in the Western Balkan countries by respecting that nowadays international capital flows are very important in determining the exchange rate regimes and financial stability especially...
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Exchange Rate Regime, Fiscal Foresight and the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy
Virkola, Tuomo - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2014
This paper studies the effects of discretionary fiscal policy shocks under different exchange rate regimes within a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model. We first suggest that by estimating the effects of fiscal policy shocks in two structurally similar small open economies that have...
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The People’s Republic of China’s Currency and Product Fragmentation
Yamashita, Nobuaki - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2011
This paper examines how an appreciation of the currency of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)—renminbi—affects the country’s exports in the context of production fragmentation, using a panel data set of the PRC’s trade for 1992/93–2008/09. It constructs two exchange rates for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991088
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Dynamic Transition of the Exchange Rate Regime in the People’s Republic of China
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Kaji, Sahoko; Tamon, Asonuma - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2014
This paper analyzes the optimal transition of the exchange rate regime in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). How the PRC can successfully reach the desired regime—whether a basket peg or floating regime—from the current dollar-peg regime remains a major question. To answer it, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991094
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Choice of Anchor Currencies and Dynamic Preferences for Exchange Rate Pegging in Asia
Rizvi, Syed Kumail Abbas; Naqvi, Bushra; Mirza, Nawazish - In: Lahore Journal of Economics 18 (2013) 2, pp. 37-49
This paper attempts to answer two important questions in the context of Asian exchange rate regimes with respect to the choice of anchor currencies and dynamic preferences for exchange rate pegging. According to our results, the US dollar is the first choice of a de facto peg for many countries...
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