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The impact of the global financial crisis on business cycles in Asian emerging economies
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Korhonen, Iikka - 2009
We analyze the transmission of global financial crisis to business cycles in China and India. The pattern of business cycles in emerging Asian economies generally displays a low degree of synchronization with the OECD countries, which is consistent with the decoupling hypothesis. By contrast,...
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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Business Cycles in Asian Emerging Economies
Fidrmuc, Jarko - 2013
We analyze the transmission of global financial crisis to business cycles in China and India. The pattern of business cycles in emerging Asian economies generally displays a low degree of synchronization with the OECD countries, which is consistent with the decoupling hypothesis. By contrast,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095773
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Different no more: country spreads in advanced and emerging economies
Born, Benjamin; Müller, Gernot J.; Pfeifer, Johannes; … - 2020
Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We illustrate this on the basis of about 3,100 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Prior to the financial crisis, spread fluctuations in advanced economies are an order of...
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Different no more : country spreads in advanced and emerging economies
Born, Benjamin; Müller, Gernot J.; Pfeifer, Johannes; … - 2020
Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We characterize their behavior using some 3,200 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Before the financial crisis, spreads are 10 times more volatile in emerging economies than in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162762
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Assessing business cycle synchronisation : prospects for a Pacific Islands currency union
Lahari, Willie - 2011
On-going debate of a Pacific Islands currency union has rekindled the argument on whether Pacific Island Countries (PICs) demonstrate symmetric behavior in their business cycles as a precondition for a union according to the OCA theory. Unfortunately for the PICs, there are no empirical studies...
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The Chinese impact on GDP growth and inflation in the industrial countries
Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - 2011
The integration of China into the global economy is one of the most spectacular events in economic history. This paper investigates to what extent this process affects output growth and inflation in the advanced countries. A GVAR model is specified to explore interdependencies between business...
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Assessing the Feasibility of Malaysia to Join the Singapore-Brunei Monetary Union
Quah, Chee-Heong - 2010
This paper attempts to assess the feasibility of Malaysia to rejoin the monetary union with Singapore and Brunei which it left in 1973 in terms of the real convergence criteria suggested by optimum currency areas (OCA) theory and the nominal convergence criteria specified by the Maastricht...
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Export and import products groups' shares of Turkey with CEE countries after theirs accessions to EU and before
Inanclı, Selim; Akal, Mustafa - 2013
The purpose of this study is to analyze export and import shares of main products of CEE countries with Turkey before their membership to EU and then, starting from the year of 2000. After accession to EU, these countries’ export and import shares mostly increased with Turkey and EU, implying...
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Economic integration and exchange rate arrangements in the post-Soviet period : the Baltic states in comparative perspective
Ljungberg, Jonas - In: European journal of comparative economics 17 (2020) 2, pp. 229-252
Which have been the consequences of the euro for integration and economic performance in the Baltic Sea region? After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the three Baltic states and Poland have been rapidly catching-up with Western Europe. The Great Recession became a great setback for the former,...
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Keynesian, non-Keynesian or no effects of fiscal policy changes? : the EMU case
Aarle, Bas van - 2001
period to the Economic andMonetary Union (EMU). Using several approaches suggested in the literatureon fiscal adjustments and … their macroeconomic effects and in the literatureon EMU, we analyze the effects of the fiscal adjustments during this … periodon private consumption. Thereby, we also take the specific context of thetransition towards EMU explicitly into …
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