Capital inflows and growth, evidence from pre-crises ASEAN economies / Shibeshi Ghebre Kahsay and Jagdish Handa -- Capital flows and real exchange rate behavior, evidence from pre-crises ASEAN economies / Shibeshi Ghebre Kahsay and Jagdish Handa -- Capital flows and monetary policy, evidence...

Hong Kong is an open economy that uses foreign currencies extensively in domestic payments. This paper focuses on substitution between the domestic and foreign currencies in their role as media of payments in such an economy. It uses quarterly data to estimate currency substitution (CS) for Hong...

Focused on the case of China’s financial development, the present discursive essay sets out to argue that if the Chinese financial system distorted the allocation of funds then economic growth could not be sustained and financial depth would remain deficient. The essay puts forward selected...

The main focus areas of the book are Concepts and Models for Private Participation in Infrastructure, Private Participation in Infrastructure in China, Laws and Regulations for Private Participation in Infrastructure in China, Financing Private Infrastructure Projects in China, Road Issues and...

The book encapsulates the ways and means of doing business with China, and the opportunities out there. It reveals how China has transformed itself for the investors by creating a friendly environment; but,nevertheless, cultural and social aspects must not be forgotten while dealing with them....

This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina, in particular, is investigated. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is used for the first time to estimate labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects...

Prices differ across space: from province to province, from rural (or urban) areas in one province to rural (or urban) areas in another province, and from rural to urban areas within one province. Systematic differences in prices across a range of goods and services in different localities imply...

This paper argues that the tradtitional way of gauging a country's fiscal policy stance by looking at government budget deficit or cyclically adjusted budget deficits is misleading in the case of China, since a lot of what usually would be considered fiscal policy is conducted via investment by...