Browsing Studies in Applied Economics by Issue Date
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How to Fix the Fed
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Prominent Economists’ Views: China’s Exchange Rate—Fixed or Floating?
(Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, 2017-05)China’s economy has slowed down in the last several years, with annual GDP growth falling from 10.6 percent in 2010 to 6.7 percent in 2016. In February 2016 Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), ... -
An Analysis of the Impact of RMB Depreciation on Hong Kong
(Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, 2017-07)Hong Kong is one of the main economies operating a currency board system today. With its currency fixed to the U.S. dollar, the system has functioned successfully since it was restarted in 1983. The last time it faced ... -
HYPERINFLATION – LATENTE GEFAHR ODER NUR EIN HISTORISCHES TRAUMA?
(Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, 2017-07) -
Analysis of the Estonian Currency Board
(Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, 2017-09)We provide a spreadsheet data series and legislative history of the Estonian currency board from 1992 to 2011. The paper assesses the level of orthodoxy exhibited by the board through statistics from annual reports. This ... -
The Tongan Board of Commissioners of Currency (1935-1989): Not an Orthodox Currency Board
(Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, 2017-10)This paper provides a historical summary, legislative history, and the first spreadsheet data series of the Tonga Board of Commissioners of Currency (1935-1989) and uses statistical tests to examine to what extent it ...