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Debt, Deficits and Exchange Rates: Essays on Financial Interdependence and Development

Debt, Deficits and Exchange Rates resents recent work by Helmut Reisen on current intemational monetary problems in East Asia and Latin America. Written over the last four years, these papers are readily accessible and of immediate policy relevance. The first part is concerned with developing country debt problems, including the growth of domestic public debt, means of hedging a country’s debt portfolio against key currency fluctuations, evidence on the debt overhang hypothesis, an evaluation of the Brady Plan, and how to attract foreign direct investment. This is followed by essays on financial opening which discuss the impact of alternative exchange rate regimes during financial integration, the degree of financial openness in Korea and Taiwan, an appropriate strategy for the liberalisation of capital flows, and the relationship between financial opening and capital flows. The final part underlines the need for exchange rate management. Issues considered include New Zealand’s experience with a pure float, the use of the theory of optimal currency areas to assess whether Asian countries should peg to the Yen, institutional features of macroeconomic management in Asia, and how Latin America should respond to heavy capital flows. Bringing together under one cover a wealth of analysis, comment and argument by a leading international scholar, this volume will be welcomed by students, teachers and policy makers as an important contribution to understanding international monetary problems in the developing world.

Author: Helmut Reisen

Binding: Hardcover

EAN: 9781852789305

Condition: New

Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Pub

Number of items: 1

Number of pages: 256

Product group: Book

Studio: Edward Elgar Pub

Publication Date: 1994-04

Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Pages: 256

ISBN: 1852789301

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Helmut Reisen
Helmut Reisen, geboren 1950 in Viersen, ist emeritierter Titularprofessor an der Universität Basel und Assoziierter Wissenschaftler am Deutschen Institut für Entwicklungspolitik. Der langjährige Forschungsdirektor des OECD-Entwicklungszentrums in Paris betreibt seit 2012 in Berlin das Beratungsunternehmen ShiftingWealth Consult, das vornehmlich Entwicklungsagenturen und Entwicklungsbanken berät.