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associate states of the bloc are Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana and Suriname. Bolivia is currently awaiting final … American trade bloc consisting of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, with Venezuela's membership currently suspended. The …
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An increasing number of countries have adopted inflation targeting since New Zealand first adopted this framework in early 1990. Currently there are 21 countries using inflation targeting in every continent of the world. This paper discusses the characteristics of these countries and how the...
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In a number of countries, especially emerging market economies, the public sector has in recent years been accumulating sizeable cross-border financial assets, mainly in the form of official foreign exchange reserves. World reserves have risen from USD 1.2 trillion in January 1995 to above USD 4...
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This paper analyses the impact of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) on global financial markets. It presents back-of-the-envelope calculations which simulate the potential impact of a transfer of traditional foreign exchange reserves to SWFs on global capital flows. If SWFs behave as CAPM-type...
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This paper aims to devise a monetary policy instrument rule that is suitable for open economies undergoing monetary convergence to a common currency area. The open-economy convergence-consistent Taylor rule is forward-looking, consistent with monetary framework based on inflation targeting,...
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The model of the Russian economy that was formed in the 2000s does not match a new stable growth path, though it helped to calmly overcome the crisis of 2008 and 2009. The state needs to provide stability in the fields under its direct control, i.e. the budgetary and monetary policies. In the...
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The global commodity boom are accompanied by the rise of social protest in Colombia. The protestors claim the pollution …. The paper presents and analyzes a database on social protests against miming in Colombia between 2000 and 2015. The Data …
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countries - Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, India and South Africa - evidenced a significant proliferation of 'evergreening …
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This paper aims at analysing the determinants of the recent wave of European banks to Brazil under the context of the … European banks in Brazil, as well as the expansion strategy of the four major European banks in Latin America - BSCH, BBVA …, HSBC and ABN-Amro. In this regard, it shows that the recent wave of European banks entering Latin America and Brazil is …
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. Dieses Engagement dehnen die Glaubensgemeinschaften in wachsendem Maße auf den Bereich der Politik aus. In Brasilien kommt …
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