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- MAS Occasional Paper No. 17 November 1999 - By Financial & Special Studies Division, Economics Department Executive Summary 1 Of late, there has been considerable interest in using implied forward interest rates as indicators of financial market expectations of future interest rates. The appeal of the implied forward rate is that it is easier to interpret for monetary policy purposes, and can be used under appropriate assumptions to infer market expectations of the future path of nominal interest
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- MAS Occasional Paper No. 14 June 1999 - By Domestic Economy Division, Economics Department Executive Summary 1 Petrochemicals play an important role in the modern world: they are essential for the production of a diverse set of products, such as synthetic fibres and rubbers, plastics and resins, solvents and paints, explosives, and many more. In Singapore, the petrochemical industry is one of the fastest growing industries, fuelled by rapid economic development in the East Asia. It has strong
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- MAS Occasional Paper No. 11 March 1999 - By Financial and Special Studies Division, Economics Department Executive Summary 1 In contrast to countries which import capital to finance their current account deficits, Singapore has had a growing current account surplus, and has been exporting capital abroad. As a result, the domestic interest rate has been generally lower than international interest rates. This paper analyses the relationship between the openness of Singapore's financial markets
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- MAS Occasional Paper No. 16 September 1999 - By Financial & Special Studies Division, Economics Department Executive Summary 1 This paper analyses the relative importance of global interest rates and domestic money market conditions in determining the local interbank rate, the extent to which currency factors create the differential between domestic and US interest rates, and the transmission mechanism from the domestic interbank rate to the prime lending and fixed deposit rates of banks. 2
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- MAS Occasional Paper No. 18 January 2000 - By Financial & Special Studies Division, Economics Department, Monetary Authority of Singapore Executive Summary 1 This paper provides an overview of the evolution of Singapore's currency and monetary policy arrangements, against the backdrop of the history of the international monetary system. 2 The discussion begins with an account of the Gold Standard era from 1870 to 1914, a period of unprecedented growth in the world economy. Under the arrangements
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- MAS Occasional Paper No. 19 February 2000 - By Financial & Special Studies Division, Economics Department Executive Summary 1 While much have been written on the relationship between the exchange rate regimes and the out break of the currency crises in East Asia, there is comparatively little literature on the conduct of the post-crisis exchange rate policies in the region. The paper analyses the following aspects of the post-crisis exchange rate regime: (i) the shift in the relative weights
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- MAS Occasional Paper No. 21 December 2000 - By Financial & Special Studies Division, Economics Department Executive Summary 1 The paper investigates the impact of the switch in the exchange rate regimes after the East Asian financial crisis on the conduct of monetary policy in Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Korea, Indonesia, and Thailand, which came under the IMF-supported programmes during the crisis, have adopted a more flexible post-crisis exchange rate regime and a monetary policy
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- “Economic Research and Policymaking in Singapore” Minister Vivian Balakrishnan Distinguished colleagues Ladies and Gentlemen Greetings 1 Good morning. On behalf of my colleagues in the Economic Society of Singapore, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all participants at this conference, especially those of you who come from abroad. I am heartened to see so many of you here. 2 Some of you may know that the SER Conference is a very “young” event. It was first organized two years ago,
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- This study was published as Special Feature C in the April 2017 Macroeconomic Review. 92 Macroeconomic Review, April 2017 Special Feature C Using Cost-Benefit Analysis In Developed And Developing Countries: Is It The Same? by Euston Quah1 Introduction Nobel laureate and economist Simon Kuznets put forth the concept of gross domestic product (GDP) in response to a need for good data in public policy planning in the 1930s. Since then, policymakers have increasingly relied
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- . -------- Special Features 101 Obstfeld, M and Posen, A S (2020), The G20 Not Only Should But Can Be Meaningfully Useful to Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Realtime Economic Issues Watch, Peterson Institute for International Economics, April 13.