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- MONETARY AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE 24 -------- November 2007 MAS Staff Paper No. 48 BIBLIOGRAPHY Adrian, T. (2007), Measuring Risk in the Hedge Fund Sector, Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Ball, Ray, Ashok Robin, and Joanna Shuang Wu, (2003)
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- MAS Staff Paper No. 53, July 2015 - By Choy Keen Meng, Liew Yin Sze, Priscilla Ng, Aireen Phang, Edward Robinson and Daniel Tan Abstract EMEAP economies have grown robustly over the last two decades, registering an average growth rate of about 5% per annum. The post-crisis environment, however, has posed new uncertainties over the sustainability of growth in the medium term, and brought to the fore important shifts in the supply-side determinants of potential growth. In the decade ahead, unfavourable
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- MAS Staff Paper No. 40, September 2005 - By Peter Montiel and Luis Serven Abstract Over the 1990s macroeconomic policies improved in a majority of developing countries, but the growth dividend from such improvement fell short of expectations, and a policy agenda focused on stability turned out to be associated with a multiplicity of financial crises. This paper takes a retrospective look at the contents and implementation of the macroeconomic reform agenda of the 1990s. It reviews the progress
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- MAS Staff Paper No. 28, February 2004 - By Barry Eichengreen Abstract This paper asks why there is less financial integration in Asia than in Europe, taking as a case study the cross-border lending and investment activities of national banking systems. Our results suggest that different levels of economic development in Asia and Europe, along with other differences in regional circumstance that are largely predetermined from the point of view of policy (distance between countries, whether they share
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- MAS Staff Paper No. 51, August 2011 - By Ong Zong Yao David, Soo Cheng Ghee, Choy Keen Meng and Ng Bok Eng Abstract Apart from the headline consumer price index, most central banks around the world are guided by some measure of core inflation in their conduct of monetary policy to ensure price stability. This paper reviews such a measure for Singapore, the MAS Core Inflation, which has been used over the past two decades. Our analyses show that the MAS Core Inflation based on the exclusion approach
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- MAS Staff Paper No. 44, April 2007 - By Andrew K. Rose Abstract This paper studies the characteristics of departures from monetary unions. During the post-war period, almost seventy distinct countries or territories have left a currency union, while over sixty have remained continuously in currency unions. I compare countries leaving currency unions to those remaining within them, and find that leavers tend to be larger, richer, and more democratic; they also tend to have higher inflation. However
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- MAS Staff Paper No. 30, May 2004 - By Ng Yi Ping, Tu Suh Ping, Edward Robinson and Choy Keen Meng Abstract This paper examines the information content in Singapore and foreign electronics indicators with a view to forecasting domestic electronics output. Our aim is to develop a summary index of activity that can be used to predict turning points in the global electronics cycle, as well as to generate quantitative forecasts of the local electronics industry's performance. For this purpose, indicators
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- MAS Staff Paper No. 38, December 2004 - By Robert St. Clair Abstract Using data available since 1990, this study explores possible macroeconomic determinants of changes in Singapore's local banks' financial performance and resilience. Econometric estimation focuses on changes in core banking indicators, such as income, expenditure, profitability, labour demand, capital holdings, and liquidity. The research aids banking sector surveillance, by highlighting a core set of macro indicators, which may
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- MAS Staff Paper No. 25, June 2003 - By Saktiandi Supaat, Angela Phang, Ng Heng Tiong and Edward Robinson. Please note that with effect from Jun 2003, the MAS Occasional Paper Series has been replaced by the MAS Staff Paper Series. Abstract This paper examines the characteristics of the Singapore dollar nominal effective exchange rate (SGD NEER) since 1980s and investigates whether the short-term movements in the currency has affected the behaviour of key real macroeconomic variables in the economy
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- MAS Staff Paper No. 36, December 2004 - By Ronald MacDonald Abstract In this paper we use the behavioural equilibrium exchange rate (BEER) approach to identify a long-run equilibrium exchange rate for the real effective exchange rate of Singapore. We demonstrate that a well-founded measure of the equilibrium value of this country's exchange rate may be recovered from a relatively small set of fundamental variables and that this can be used to produce an assessment of the currency in terms of periods