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Future Targets and Multiple Equilibria
Guha, Ashok S.; Guha, Brishti - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
Multiple Pareto-rankable equilibria may obtain in an overlapping generations model where consumers save to reach a fixed target. Existence and uniqueness conditions are discussed. The model displays excess consumption sensitivity to current income and perfect old-age insurance.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365528
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Destined for Destitution : Intergenerational Poverty Persistence in Indonesia
Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
We estimate intergenerational poverty persistence in Indonesia using a panel dataset. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such study looking at the issue in the Indonesian context. Different from the majority of studies on this issue, we include controls for several household and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363335
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Destined for Destitution : Intergenerational Poverty Persistence in Indonesia
Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
We estimate intergenerational poverty persistence in Indonesia using a panel dataset. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such study looking at the issue in the Indonesian context. Different from the majority of studies on this issue, we include controls for several household and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363632
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Keeping Dictators Honest : the Role of Population Concentration
Doy, Quoc-Anh; Campante, Filipe R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
propose that population plays a similar role in guaranteeing the quality of governance and redistribution. We argue and … threat to a dictatorship, inducing it to yield to more redistribution and better governance. We bring this centered concept … capital city is positively associated with better governance and more redistribution (proxied by post-tax inequality), in OLS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363276
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Analyzing and Forecasting Business Cycles in a Small Open Economy : A Dynamic Factor Model for Singapore
Chow, Hwee Kwan; Choy, Keen Meng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
A dynamic factor model is applied to a large panel dataset of Singapores macroeconomic variables and global economic indicators with the initial objective of analyzing business cycles in a small open economy. The empirical results suggest that four common factors are present in the quarterly...
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The People’s Republic of China’s Growth, Stability, and Use of International Reserves
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Marion, Nancy P. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
In the run-up to the financial crisis, the world economy was characterized by large and growing current account imbalances. Since the onset of the crisis, the People’s Republic of China and the United States have rebalanced. As a share of gross domestic product, their current account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134334
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The People’s Republic of China’s Growth, Stability, and Use of International Reserves
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Marion, Nancy P. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
In the run-up to the financial crisis, the world economy was characterized by large and growing current account imbalances. Since the onset of the crisis, the People’s Republic of China and the United States have rebalanced. As a share of gross domestic product, their current account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134364
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International Financial Integration and Crisis Intensity
Rose, Andrew K. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper analyzes the causes of the 2008–2009 financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. The analysis is conducted on a cross-section of 85 economies; I focus on international financial linkages that may have both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651638
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International Financial Integration and Crisis Intensity
Rose, Andrew K. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper analyzes the causes of the 2008–2009 financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. The analysis is conducted on a cross-section of 85 economies; I focus on international financial linkages that may have both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651649
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The Current State of Financial and Regulatory Frameworks in Asian Economies : The Case of India
Gupta, Abhijit Sen - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Despite having a low exposure to the toxic assets involved in the sub-prime crisis and a gradualist approach towards liberalization of the financial sector, certain parts of the Indian financial sector were significantly affected by the global financial crisis. The consequent tightening of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653154