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Net Neutrality : A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-offs

Greenstein, Shane - 2016

The "net neutrality" principle has triggered a heated debate and advocates have proposed policy interventions. In this paper, we provide perspective by framing issues in terms of the positive economic factors at work. We stress the incentives of market participants, and highlight the economic...

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Exchange Rate Regimes, Capital Flows and Crisis Prevention

Edwards, Sebastian - 2001

In this paper I analyze, within the context of the new 'financial architecture,' the relationship between exchange rate regimes, capital flows and currency crises in emerging economies. The paper draws on lessons learned during the 1990s, and deals with some of the most important policy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470189

Interest Rates, Contagion and Capital Controls

Edwards, Sebastian - 2000

In this paper I analyze several issues related to contagion,' including its definition, recent experiences, alternative channels at work, and possible prevention mechanisms. The discussion deals with the macroeconomics implications of contagion, and concentrates on the relationship between the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470949

Crisis Prevention : Lessons from Mexico and East Asia

Edwards, Sebastian - 1999

economies. Although much of the discussion concentrates on East Asia and Mexico, I also draw on the history of some previous …

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The Morning After : The Mexican Peso in the Aftermath of the 1994 Currency Crisis

Edwards, Sebastian - 1998

floating regime. Some even argued that it was d‚j… vu' all over again, and that the Bank of Mexico was manipulating monetary …-97 the Bank of Mexico followed some sort of feedback rule from the exchange rate to monetary policy. Our answer to this …

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Banks and Macroeconomics Disturbances under Predetermined Exchange Rates

Edwards, Sebastian - 1997

evidence for Chile and Mexico supports the main predictions of the model …

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A Tale of Two Crises : Chile and Mexico

Edwards, Sebastian - 1996

observers were shocked by this turn of events. Mexico had a remarkable historical precedent: merely a dozen years earlier Chile … suffered a prophetically similar crisis. Like Mexico during the 1980s, Chile during the 1970s undertook major structural … aimed at creating a modern financial sector. In Chile, as in Mexico more than a decade later, the use of a predetermined …

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Monetary Policy Independence under Flexible Exchange Rates : An Illusion?

Edwards, Sebastian - 2015

, and capital mobility - Chile, Colombia and Mexico - to investigate the extent to which Federal Reserve actions are …

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