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In studies concluding that public debt may hamper GDP growth, the debt tipping effects are estimated as if there were a single global currency. This means that such studies ignore the likely biggest cause of changes in growth rates, namely damage from exchange rate liquidity shocks because we do...
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During recent years, central banks have increased the levels of their international reserves at an unprecedented pace. In this paper, we introduce new country-specific reserve data and examine determinants of the composition of international reserves. Using a dataset of 36 countries (and the...
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monetary integration and even monetary unification in various parts of the world, including East Asia, the current crisis has …. Based on this analysis, it derives five lessons for regional financial and monetary cooperation and integration in East Asia …
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This paper assesses the OECD’s projections for GDP growth and inflation during the global financial crisis and recovery, focussing on lessons that can be learned. The projections repeatedly over-estimated growth, failing to anticipate the extent of the slowdown and later the weak pace of the...
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This paper explores the impact of advanced countries' quantitative easing on emerging market economies (EMEs) and how macroprudential policy and good governance play a role in preventing potential financial vulnerabilities. We used confidential locational bank statistics data from the Bank for...
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adjustment to the post-crisis challenges. We point out that emerging Asia has converged to a middle ground of the trilemma …
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This paper compares financial assistance programmes of four euro-area countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Cyprus) and three non-euro-area countries (Hungary, Latvia, and Romania) of the European Union in the aftermath of the 2007/08 global financial and economic crisis-which were supported...
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This paper compares financial assistance programs of four euro-area countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Cyprus) and three non-euro-area countries (Hungary, Latvia, and Romania) of the European Union in the aftermath of the 2007/08 global financial and economic crisis - which were supported...
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This paper analyzes why the global financial crisis in 2008 severely affected Asia's trade. Asia has been suffering … from the falls in export demand from developed countries. However the abrupt trade declines in Asia are not fully explained … developing economies and show different results for different countries in Asia. We employ a Markov-Switching FAVAR (Factor …
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