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Sources of fluctuations in parallel exchange rates and policy reform in Myanmar

Kubo, Koji - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

Myanmar maintained a multiple exchange rate system, and the parallel market exchange rate was left untamed. In the last two decades, the Myanmar kyat exchange rate of the parallel market has exhibited the sharpest fluctuations among Southeast Asian currencies in real terms. Since the move to a...

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China's Impact on the Exports of Other Asian Countries: A Note

Kumakura, Masanaga; Kuroko, Masato - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007

Despite widespread interest in China's growing trade surplus and its impact on other countries, empirical research in … estimate the trade volumes of China and other East Asian countries using a variety of surrogate price indices, an inappropriate … problem by examining recent studies on the export competition between China and other Asian countries. …

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Large Fluctuations in Consumption in Least Developed Countries

Kodama, Masahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

The objective of this paper is to shed light on mechanism which increases fluctuation in consumption of least developed countries. In general large fluctuation in consumption makes consumers worse off. This fact suggests that accumulation of knowledge on the generating mechanism of the large...

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Is It Worthwhile for Indonesia to Rush into a Free Trade Deal with Japan?

Oyamada, Kazuhiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007

This report represents a preliminary attempt to refine some basic ideas on the potential impact Indonesia might experience from a free trade arrangement with Japan, using a forward-looking, multi-regional, multi-sectoral applied general equilibrium model of global trade to capture growth effects...

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Business Cycles of Non-mono-cultural Developing Economies: The Case of ASEAN Countries

Kodama, Masahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

Based on analyses of actual data, we reveal that many Asian developing economies own economic structural features of "non-mono-cultural economy" and the "large primary good sector", which have not been discussed in developing economies RBC literature. We also examine the input-output tables to...

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Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in Malaysia before the Asian Crisis

Umezaki, So - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

This paper provides a case study to characterize the monetary policy regime in Malaysia, from a medium- and long-term perspective. Specifically, we ask how the central bank of Malaysia, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), has structured its monetary policy regime, and how it has conducted monetary and...

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FTA in international finance : impacts of exchange rates on FTA utilization

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kim, HanSung; Yoshimi, Taiyo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper investigates how exchange rates affect the utilization of a free trade agreement (FTA) scheme in trading. Changes in exchange rates affect FTA utilization by two ways. The first way is by changing the excess profits gained by utilizing the FTA scheme, and the second way is by...

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Central bank intervention and exchange rate behaviour : empirical evidence for India

Inoue, Takeshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

This paper examines the causal relationship between central bank intervention and exchange returns in India. Using monthly data from December 1997 to December 2011, the empirical results derived from the CCF approach of Cheung and Ng (1996) suggest that there is causality-in-variance from...

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Real exchange rate appreciation, resource boom, and policy reform in Myanmar

Kubo, Koji - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

In the five-year period from 2006 to 2011, the real exchange rate of the Myanmar kyat appreciated 200 percent, signifying that the value of the US dollar in Myanmar diminished to one third of its previous level. While the resource boom is suspected as a source of the real exchange rate...

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Deposit dollarization in Myanmar

Kubo, Koji - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

Myanmar has peculiar conditions of deposit dollarization that were shaped by administrative controls. On the one hand, restrictive controls encouraged the accumulation of foreign currency deposits (FCD). On the other hand, foreign currency loans (FCL) were not practiced officially; therefore,...

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