Financial versus monetary mercantilism-long-run view of large international reserves hoarding:

The sizable hoarding of international reserves by several East Asian countries has been frequently attributed to a modern version of monetary mercantilism -- hoarding international reserves in order to improve competitiveness. From a long-run perspective, manufacturing exporters in East Asia adopted...

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Main Authors: Aizenman, Joshua 1949- (Author), Yi, Chae-u (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006
Series:Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research 12718
Online Access:Volltext
Summary:The sizable hoarding of international reserves by several East Asian countries has been frequently attributed to a modern version of monetary mercantilism -- hoarding international reserves in order to improve competitiveness. From a long-run perspective, manufacturing exporters in East Asia adopted financial mercantilism -- subsidizing the cost of capital -- during decades of high growth. They switched to hoarding large international reserves when growth faltered, making it harder to disentangle the monetary mercantilism from precautionary response to the heritage of past financial mercantilism. Monetary mercantilism also lowers the cost of hoarding, but may be associated with negative externalities leading to competitive hoarding.
Item Description:Literaturverz. S. 21 - 22
Physical Description:22 S. graph. Darst. 22 cm

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