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, exchange rate stability and financial integration subject to the constraints imposed by the Trilemma, in an era of widespread … globalization. In this paper we overview and contrast the Trilemma policy choices and tradeoffs faced by the two key drivers of … global economic growth-China and India. China’s Trilemma configurations are unique relative to other emerging markets in the …
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Central banks' international reserve holdings have increased significantly in the recent past. While traditional models fail to explain this accumulation of reserves, the more recent literature argues that reserves are used as a lifejacket against financial crises. However, research so far has...
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While substantial empirical research has evaluated the question of whether capital account openness promotes economic growth, this paper finds empirical evidence for cases where the opposite is true--that a policy of capital controls can promote economic growth, when combined with a policy of...
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Halving the US current account deficit as a share of GDP is likely to impose a burden of $2,350 per capita on the United States, which explains why US policymakers want to postpone adjustment. The rest of the world relies on the economic stimulus of a widening US external deficit, which explains...
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a solution to the monetary trilemma with which the central bank can perform its monetary policy independently of foreign …
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This paper is concerned with international reserves where the accumulation of reserves is financed by public debt. Optimally controlled paths are used to illustrate the possibility of long term instability in a small macroeconomic system. The results indicate that reserve accumulation financed...
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This paper discusses some of the domestic implications of the recent large-scale use of foreign exchange intervention by emerging market economies to resist currency appreciation. Over the past five years, many countries have adopted an accommodating monetary policy while intervening. Despite...
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In this paper we adopt a non linear approach to examine the dynamics of the international reserves holdings by the emerging economies. To do so, we estimate the demand for international reserves with a panel smooth transition model, that loosens two restricting hypotheses, homogeneity and...
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Empirical estimates of the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) intervention reaction function suggest that the central bank actively intervenes in the foreign exchange market to contain volatility but this intervention is neither continuous nor linear. It is better described by a nonlinear policy...
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The abundant literature on the competing motives for holding international reserves stresses different factors, giving rise to a problem called model uncertainty. In this paper we search for the most important determinants of reserve holdings using data for 104 countries in 1999–2010 and...
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