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The Asian currency crisis [PDF]

open access: possibleChoice Reviews Online, 2001
This paper analyzes the East Asian Currency Crisis to examine what factors led to the crisis and the differential impact across countries. Empirical data of 7 Asian countries over the period 1990 – 1996 is examined. The sample of seven countries is divided into two categories; crisis countries and affected countries.
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The 1935 Italian currency crisis

2023
In 1935, the mounting balance of payment crisis and the League of Nations sanctions against Italy because of the invasion of Ethiopia generated a currency crisis that induced a profound transformation in the structure of the Italian economy and a new institutional framework on the economic governance side.
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Crisis? What Crisis? [PDF]

open access: possible, 2009
This paper examines the role of currency and banking in the German financial crisis of 1931 for both Germany and the U.S. We specify a structural dynamic factor model to identify financial and monetary factors separately for each of the two economies. We find that monetary transmission through the Gold Standard played only a minor role in causing and ...
Ritschl, Albrecht, Sarferaz, Samad
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Money, Currency and Crisis

2018
Money is a core feature in all discussions of economic crisis, as is clear from the debates about the responses of the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States to the 2008 economic crisis. This volume explores the role of money in economic performance, and focuses on how monetary systems have affected economic crises for ...
R.J. van der Spek, Leeuwen Bas van
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Policy Measures to Avoid a Currency Crisis

The Economic Journal, 1995
This paper considers a number of policy measures that may be used to preserve a fixed exchange rate. These are analyzed in a model where a switch of exchange-rate regime is triggered by an optimizing policymaker in response to extreme economic conditions. It is shown how a number of policy measures can be used to alter the balance between the costs and
Ozkan, F Gulcin, Sutherland, Alan
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Banking Crisis, Currency Crisis and Growth

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
This paper examines the effect of banking and currency crises on long-run growth. Our data cover 130 economies from 1800 to 2010, some dating from 1800 with the rest beginning in later years. The data include banking crises, currency crises, output per worker, growth rate of population and regional dummies. We found that both the frequency of banking
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Currency crisis: Turkey in 2021

The CASE Journal, 2023
Research methodology This case study is developed from secondary sources. Two types of data were used to develop this case. The statistical data are gathered from sources such as Yahoo! Finance, Trading Economics, Investing.com and The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.
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Is a currency board an answer to Asia’s currency crisis?

Managerial Finance, 2000
Contrasts the stability of Hong Kong’s currency with the fall of other Asian currencies during the 1997‐1998 crisis and asks whether a Hong Kong‐style currency board could help other Asian countries. Discusses the underlying causes of the crisis and compares it with the currency crises of the European Monetary System (1992‐1993) and Mexico (1994‐1995).
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Asian Currency Crisis

1999
The Asian currency crisis that began in July 1997 with the devaluation of the Thai baht shows little sign of abating. Indeed, the very poor state of the domestic economies in the region, which as yet show no real signs of improving, would suggest that this crisis is likely to deepen in the period ahead and that it could spread further to countries that
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A model to explain the duration of a currency crisis

International Journal of Finance & Economics, 2000
There are two main schools of thought which seek to explain currency crises: fundamentalist theories (Krugman P. 1979) and speculative theories (Obstfeld M. 1986). However, neither of these approaches considers the duration of a currency crisis. I explain the duration of a crisis in terms of a war of attrition model.
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