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Before the crisis of 1997-98, the East Asian economies except for Japan but including China pegged their currencies to the U.S. dollar. To avoid further turmoil, the IMF now argues that these currencies should float more freely. However, our econometric estimations show that the dollar's...
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This paper examines the movements of exchange rates and capital inflows in an environment where an optimizing central bank pursuing the joint goals of inflation and output targeting engages in costly sterilization activities. Our results predict that when faced with increased sterilization...
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Government financial assets are increasingly recognized as playing an important role inassessing fiscal sustainability. However, very little research has been done on the dynamics ofgovernment financial assets compared to liabilities. In this paper, we investigate the impact ofrecent financial...
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Over the past two years, the key trading economies in SE Asia experienced major economic crises, involving financial … macroeconomic consequences of the Asia crisis and their predictability from the perspective of the OECD countries. In doing so it … examines some of the major aspects of the Asia crisis, its effects on the world situation and their predictability, assisted by …
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Employing the Pedroni co-integration technique and the GMM estimator, this paper aims at investigating the possible connection between financial development, financial openness and trade openness in twenty-nine Asian developing countries over 1994-2008. Firstly, we find a bidirectional causality...
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Generally, one of the important issues related to currency crises is the output losses caused by these phenomena. In this study, determinants of output losses and particularly the role of the central bank will be evaluated during currency crises. Moreover, the paper tries to investigate the...
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