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  • A BASKET CURRENCY FOR ASIA
    ITO, TAKATOSHI
    The failure of the dollar peg to prevent the Asian currency crisis of 1997 to 1998 has highlighted the importance of the exchange rate regime in Asia and provoked much discussion as to what the alternatives are in terms of exchange rate systems. Bringing together extensive research on Asian basket currencies in one volume, this new text discusses whether a currency basket syste...

    $1,320.00

  • COMMODITY PRICES AND MARKETS
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    Fluctuations of commodity prices, most notably of oil, capture considerable attention and have been tied to important economic effects, such as inflation and low rates of economic growth. Commodity Prices and Markets advances our understanding of the consequences of these fluctuations, providing both general analysis and a particular focus on the countries of the Pacific Rim. T...

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  • THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN EAST ASIA
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    Recent studies show that almost all industrial countries have experienced dramatic decreases in both fertility and mortality rates. This situation has led to aging societies with economies that suffer from both a decline in the working population and a rise in fiscal deficits linked to increased government spending. East Asia exemplifies these trends, and this volume offers an ...

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  • FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE PACIFIC RIM
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    The reform in Asian financial sectors—especially in banking and stock markets—has been remarkable since the currency crisis of 1997–98. East Asia is now a major player in international finance, providing serious competition to the more traditional financial centers of London and New York. Financial Sector Development in the Pacific Rim provides a rich collection of theoretical ...

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  • FISCAL POLICY AND MANAGEMENT IN EAST ASIA
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    Managing fiscal policy—the revenues and spending of an individual nation—is among the most challenging tasks facing governments. Wealthy countries are constrained by complex regulation and taxation policies, while developing nations often face high inflation and trade taxes. In this volume, esteemed economists Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, along with other leading experts, ...

    $2,167.09

  • GROWTH AND PRODUCTIVITY IN EAST ASIA
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    Considering the examples of Australia and the Pacific Rim, Growth and Productivity in East Asia offers a contemporary explanation for national productivity that measures contributions not only from capital and labor, but also from economic activities and relevant changes in policy, education, and technology. Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose have organized a group of collaborato...

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  • REGIONAL AND GLOBAL CAPITAL FLOWS
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    The volume of capital flows between industrial and developing countries has grown dramatically in the past decade and has become a major issue in a world that is increasingly "globalized." Here Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger, two leading experts on this topic, have assembled a group of scholars who address different types of capital flows—bank lending, bonds, direct foreign ...

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  • INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ISSUES IN THE PACIFIC RIM
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    The imbalanced, yet mutually beneficial, trading relationship between the United States and Asia has long been one of international finance’s most perplexing mysteries. Although the United States continues to post a substantial trade deficit—and China reaps the benefits of a surplus—the dollar has yet to sink in the face of ever-increasing account disparities.  International Fi...

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  • THE ROLE OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN EAST ASIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    The international flow of long-term private capital has increased dramatically in the 1990s. In fact, many policymakers now consider private foreign capital to be an essential resource for the acceleration of economic growth. This volume focuses attention on the microeconomic determinants and effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the East Asian region, allowing research...

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  • GROWTH THEORIES IN LIGHT OF THE EAST ASIAN EXPERIENCE
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    The contributors to this volume analyze the growth experiences of Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan in light of the recently developed endogenous growth theory to provide an understanding of the economic boom in East Asia. The theory explored in this volume attributes the phenomenal economic success of these countries to, among other factors, the role of an ...

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  • FINANCIAL DEREGULATION AND INTEGRATION IN EAST ASIA
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    The increased mobility and volume of international capital flows is a striking trend in international finance. While countries worldwide have engaged in financial deregulation, nowhere is this pattern more pronounced than in East Asia, where it has affected in unanticipated ways the behavior of exchange rates, interest rates, and capital flows. In these thirteen essays, America...

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  • CHANGES IN EXCHANGE RATES IN RAPIDLY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    The exchange rate is a crucial variable linking a nation's domestic economy to the international market. Thus choice of an exchange rate regime is a central component in the economic policy of developing countries and a key factor affecting economic growth. Historically, most developing nations have employed strict exchange rate controls and heavy protection of domestic industr...

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  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TAX REFORM
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    The rapid emergence of East Asia as an important geopolitical-economic entity has been one of the most visible and striking changes in the international economy in recent years. With that emergence has come an increased need for understanding the problems of interdependence. As a step toward meeting this need, the National Bureau of Economic Research joined with the Korea Devel...

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  • DEREGULATION AND INTERDEPENDENCE IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    Recently, real and artificial barriers to international transactions have fallen sharply, causing a rise in the overall volume of international trade. East Asia has been particularly affected by the economic stresses and gains derived from deregulation. Deregulation and Interdependence in the Asia-Pacific Region explores the broadly similar experiences of certain economies in t...

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  • TRADE AND PROTECTIONISM
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    During the first three decades following the Second World War, an increasingly open international trading system led to unprecedented economic growth throughout the world. But in recent years, that openness has been threatened by increased protectionism, regional trading arrangements—Europe 1992 and the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement—and setbacks in negotiations on the Genera...

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  • REGIONALISM VERSUS MULTILATERAL TRADE ARRANGEMENTS
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    There is no doubt that the open multilateral trading system after World War II was a key ingredient in the rapid economic development of the entire world. Especially in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, exports increased dramatically both in absolute terms and as a percentage of GNP. In the 1980s, however, preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) began to emerge as signi...

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  • TRADE IN SERVICES IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    In recent years the tremendous growth of the service sector—including international trade in services—has outstripped that of manufacturing in many industrialized nations. As the importance of services has grown, economists have begun to focus on policy issues raised by them and have tried to understand what, if any, differences there are between production and delivery of good...

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  • GOVERNANCE, REGULATION, AND PRIVATIZATION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    Over the last twenty-five years, there has been an acceleration in the move from government regulation towards privatization. Governance, Regulation, and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region is the first thoroughgoing account of the relative success of the different approaches to privatization as undertaken in Korea, China, Australia, and Japan. In most contexts, privatizat...

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  • INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN EAST ASIA
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    The practice of trading across international borders has undergone a series of changes with great consequences for the world trading community, the result of new trade agreements, a number of financial crises, the emergence of the World Trade Organization, and countless other less obvious developments. In International Trade in East Asia, a group of esteemed contributors provid...

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  • MONETARY POLICY WITH VERY LOW INFLATION IN THE PACIFIC RIM
    TAKATOSHI ITO
    Extremely low inflation rates have moved to the forefront of monetary policy discussions. In Asia, a number of countries—most prominently Japan, but also Taiwan and China—have actually experienced deflation over the last fifteen years. Monetary Policy with Very Low Inflation in the Pacific Rim explores the factors that have contributed to these circumstances and forecasts some ...

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