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Financial Conditions Indexes for Asian Economies

Debuque-Gonzales, Margarita; Gochoco-Bautista, Maria Socorro - 2013

Financial conditions indexes (FCIs) are constructed for five Asian economies, namely, Hong Kong, China; Japan; the …

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Daniëls, Tijmen R.; Jager, Henk; Klaassen, Franc - 2009

While virtually all currency crisismodels recognise that the fate of a currency peg depends on how tenaciously policy makers defend it, they seldom model how this is done. We incorporate themechanics of speculation and the interest rate defence against it in the model ofMorris and Shin (American...

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Defending against Speculative Attacks

Daniels, Tijmen R.; Jager, Henk; Klaassen, Franc - 2008

While virtually all modern models of exchange rate crises recognise that the decision to abandon an exchange rate peg depends on how harshly policy makers are willing to defend the regime, they virtually never model how the exchange rate is defended. In this paper we incorporate both the...

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Russian agri-food sector: 16 months after the breakdown of the monetary system

Poganietz, Witold-Roger - 2000

In August 1998 the Russian foreign exchange market and financial system collapsed. As a consequence the rouble devaluated in real terms against the currencies of the main trade partners, generating an output push in the agri-food sector. This improved the financial health of most producer, thus...

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Do active innovation policies matter? Findings from a survey on the Hong Kong electronics SMEs

Liu, Wan-Hsin - 2008

Since 1997 the Hong Kong (HK) government has markedly changed its role from being a mere institution provider to being an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D...

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Academia-industry linkages and the role of active innovation policies: firm-level evidence in Hong Kong

Liu, Wan-Hsin - 2009

This paper analyses academia-industry linkages of the Hong Kong (HK) electronics small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and investigates the role of active innovation policies in this regard. It uses data collected from a questionnaire survey in HK, focusing on three main academia-industry...

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Exchange rate coordination in Asia: Evidence using the Asian Currency Unit

Gupta, Abhijit Sen - 2012

This paper evaluates the extent of exchange rate coordination among Asian economies using a hypothetical Asian Currency Unit. Rising interdependence among Asian economies makes it vital for these economies to have a certain degree of exchange rate stability. However, the empirical evidence using...

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Race to the future: Innovations in gifted and enrichment education in Asia, and implications for the United States

Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-25

-to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate … No Child Left Behind testing and budget cut-backs) to move away from that model. Developments in China (including Hong …

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China: Understanding a new global economic player

Siebert, Horst - 2006

This paper analyzes China's economic performance in the last 25 years and discusses its prospect for growth in the … future. China has enjoyed high annual GDP growth rates of about ten percent in the last 25 years. Exports and investment were …

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The sustainability of China's exchange rate policy and capital account liberalisation

Cappiello, Lorenzo; Ferrucci, Gianluigi - 2008

This paper deals with two related issues: the sustainability of China’s exchange rate regime and the opening up of its … to avoid disruptive capital flows. The paper discusses China’s twin surpluses of the current and capital accounts and … the outlook for Chinese capital flows should barriers to capital movements be lifted. It argues that whether China …

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