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- MAS Staff Paper No. 29, March 2004 - By Pei Sai Fan Abstract Corporate Governance is about putting in place the structure, processes and mechanisms by which business and affairs of the company or firm are directed and managed, in order to enhance long term shareholder value through accountability of managers and enhancing firm performance. In other words, through such structure, processes and mechanisms, the well-known agency problem - the separation of ownership (by shareholders) and control (by
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- Economics Departments Quarterly Bulletin Sep 1999 Launch of Explorer Series, including information on monetary policy (issue #2), and implementation of monetary policy (issue #5) Feb 2000 Monetary Model of Singapore (MMS) Conference; model formally launched; overview documentation released
- in producing macroeconomic success is very much predicated upon regime MONETARY AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE 23 -------- MAS Staff Paper No. 37 December 2004 STEPS TAKEN BY THE MAS TOWARDS INCREASING MONETARY POLICY TRANSPARENCY APPENDIX 1 Apr 1999 First issue of the
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- United Nations, Operation and Effects of the Generalized System of Preferences, various issues. Economic Policy Department, Monetary Authority of Singapore -------- MAS OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES* Title Current Account Deficits in the ASEAN-3: Is There Cause for Concern?
- Griliches, Zvi (1986) Economic Data Issues in Handbook of Econometrics (vol. III, edited by Z. Griliches and M.D. Intriligator), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, pp.1485-1495. Kearl, J.R., Clayne L. Pope, Gordon C. Whiting, and Larry T. Wimmer (1979) A Confusion of Economists?
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- Benhabib, J.B. and Spiegel, M.M. (1994), The Role of Human Capital in Economic Development: Evidence from Aggregate Cross-Country Data, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 34, Issue 2, pp. 143-74. Brauw, A. and Rozelle, S.
- , The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 106, Issue 4, pp. 979-1014. Barro, R.J. and Sala-i-Martin, X. (1995), Economic Growth, New York: McGraw-Hill. Barro, R.J. (1997), Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study, Lionel Robbins Lectures.
- (1988), On the Mechanics of Economic Development, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 3-42. Mellander, E. (1997), On Omitted Variable Bias and Measurement Error in Returns to Schooling Estimates, IUI Working Paper Series, No. 494, November 1997. Mincer, J.
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- Higgins, Matthew, Thomas Klitgaard, and Robert Lerman, (2006), Recycling Petrodollars, Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, December. International Monetary Fund, (2006), World Economic Outlook, September.
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- Economists build economic models to tackle practical problems and design them as tools for thinking about economic issues.
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- results, a few optimum exchange rate policy paths that are consistent with MAS monetary policy objective of achieving sustainable economic growth with low inflation over the medium term are identified. 1.4.11 The macroeconomic models have also been used to address economic
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- Monetary Authority of Singapore (1998), Economic Issues (Singapore). (2000), A Survey of Singapores Monetary Policy, Occasional Paper No. 18 (Singapore). (2001a), Singapores Exchange Rate Policy. (2001b), Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. III, Issue 3, October.
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- MAS Staff Paper No. 50, June 2009 - By Joey Chew, Sam Ouliaris and Tan Siang Meng Abstract This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the exchange rate pass-through in the Singapore economy, allowing for the first time, asymmetric pass-through effects over the business cycle. We find that the first stage exchange rate pass-through to domestic import prices is complete, with changes in the exchange rate fully reflected in domestic import prices by the fourth quarter of the shock. The implication
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- MAS Staff Paper No. 41, December 2005 - By Andrew Feltenstein and Florenz Plassmann Abstract We analyse trade reform among the ASEAN countries, which recently began removing all mutual trade barriers. The standard method to avoid complete specialization in traded goods is to distinguish goods both by physical type and place of origin (the so called Armington assumption). This methodology is not suitable for the sort of intermediate goods produced by the ASEAN countries. We develop a computational
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- MAS Occasional Paper No. 22, August 2002 - By Andrew K Rose Abstract Twenty-four recent studies have investigated the effect of currency union on trade, resulting in 443 point estimates of the effect. This paper is a quantitative attempt to summarize the current state of debate; meta-analysis is used to combine the disparate estimates. The chief findings are that: (a) the hypothesis that there is no effect of currency union on trade can be rejected at standard significance levels; (b) the combined