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Recent revelations on the use of fiduciary services by the wealthy and political leaders raise concerns regarding the use of such services for tax and creditor evasion. Yet given the secrecy shrouding much of the fiduciary industry, we do not know which fiduciary services are used for such...
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. -- Capital flows ; dynamic hierarchical factor model ; emerging economies ; financial crises …
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This study examines the relationship between current-account imbalances and economic growth during the 2008-2009 financial and economic crisis for 179 countries (covered by IMF data) and within the EU-27 countries (covered by Eurostat data). The countries are divided into 4 groups by GDP per...
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gradually decelerates. But sometimes the boom ends in twin currency and banking crises, and is followed by a protracted credit …
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In this paper we ask whether tighter monetary and fiscal policies are the right way to face a sudden stop (a sudden curtailment in capital flows) in a typical emerging economy. We develop exogenous measures of fiscal and monetary policy response and conclude that tighter policies are associated...
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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 study examines the relationship between current-account imbalances and economic growth during the 2008-2009 financial and economic crisis for 179 countries (covered by IMF data) and within the EU-27 countries (covered by Eurostat data). The countries are divided into 4 groups by GDP per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051206
Empirical studies of the global liquidity spillover on Indonesia's economy are still relatively limited. Most of the global contagion literature on Indonesia's economy focuses only on the effects of real shock (on output) due to financial shock. We assert that the effect of global output on...
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Brazilian crises. Results show that when crises are measured by changes in sovereign bond spreads, financial competition seems … to explain almost all contagion episodes. However, when crises are measured by stock market returns, trade links and … neighborhood effects appear to be relevant contagion channels during the Thai and Brazilian crises, while financial competition …
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gradually decelerates. But sometimes the boom ends in twin currency and banking crises, and is followed by a protracted credit …
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