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The central objective of this paper is to empirically assess how global imbalances have evolved since the global financial crisis of 2008/09. More specifically, we examine how the security investment positions of major East Asian economies in United States (US) financial markets - equities,...
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competitive devaluations. The sheer size of China, and its lower sterilization costs suggests that China may be the winner of a … external instability, which is magnified by exposure of the banking system to non performing loans. Testing the self insurance … and precautionary motives in the context of China may be challenged by a version of the "peso problem"; Hoarding …
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The nature of South-South international economic relations has changed significantly in recent decades, especially since the early 1990s. In areas such as trade, investment, labor markets, technology, and policy coordination, regional cooperation between countries of the South and pro-market...
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The nature of South-South international economic relations has changed significantly in recent decades, especially since the early 1990s. In areas such as trade, investment, labor markets, technology, and policy coordination, regional cooperation between countries of the South and pro-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120773
In 2013, the European Union and the United States embarked on ambitious negotiations to establish a new free trade area under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). By mid-2014, however, according to numerous press reports, the TTIP negotiations foundered because of the...
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commitments, to discriminatory FTAs. The paper surveys the FTA activity of the major regional players: China, India, the ASEAN …
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We investigate how the exchange rate regime influences economic linkages across countries. We divide the exchange rate regime into three classifications: currency union, peg and floating exchange rates. Unlike most studies solely focusing on the relationship between anchor and client countries,...
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Rising current account and merchandise trade imbalances marked the years before the global financial and economic crisis. These imbalances either contributed to or precipitated the crisis and to the extent that they create systemic risks, it is desirable that they be reduced. There are many...
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The paper explains origin of financial crisis in one country and its spread to other countries - contagion, in a multi country dynamic model of international capital inflow. The origin of crisis is rooted in this model in the common international loan market; thus crisis can occur even when the...
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This paper examines the extent to which government policies are responsible for the pattern of current account (trade) imbalances and, by implication, the extent to which such policies might be used to achieve the G-20 goal of reducing imbalances. Fiscal balances and foreign exchange...
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