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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462150503321

Autore

Bhalla Surjit S

Titolo

Devaluing to prosperity [[electronic resource] ] : misaligned currencies and their growth consequence / / Surjit S. Bhalla

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2012

ISBN

0-88132-651-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

332.4/142

Soggetti

Devaluation of currency

Economic development - Developing countries

International trade

Foreign exchange rates

Monetary policy

Electronic books.

Developing countries Commerce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover ""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Ch 1. Introduction ""; ""What Determines Growth: Geography? Technology? Policy?""; ""The Primacy of Exchange Rate Policy""; ""A Guide to the Book""; ""Ch 2. Determinants of Economic Growth""; ""The Historical Context""; ""Some Explanations of Growth""; ""Growth since 1950""; ""Popular Theories""; ""Growth Policies: The Washington Consensus""; ""Ch 3. Currency Valuation, Savings, and the Current Account ""; ""Currency Valuation and Savings""; ""Current Account Balance and Growth""; ""Currency Valuation and the Current Account""

""Ch 4. Measuring Currency Valuation """"Equilibrium Exchange Rates""; ""Real Exchange Rates""; ""Currency Misalignments""; ""Real Exchange Rates and Income""; ""Different Measures of Currency Valuation""; ""Income, Currency Valuation, and Growth: A Review""; ""Ch 5. The Yin and Yang of Investment ""; ""Currency Valuation and Investment""; ""Investment Impact of Currency Devaluation""; ""Investment as the Channel of Influence""; ""Ch 6. Is the Real Exchange Rate Endogenous?  ""; ""An Endogenous Real Exchange Rate: The Theory""; ""The



Impossible Trinity""; ""Passive Devaluation""

""Changes in Currency Valuation, 1980-2011""""Is China a Currency Manipulator?""; ""In Summary""; ""Ch 7. Rashomon Rules: US Dollar, Euro Dollar""; ""US Current Account Deficit""; ""Valuations of the Dollar""; ""Currency Valuations and the US Current Account Deficit""; ""Whither the Dollar?""; ""Ch 8. Currency Valuation and Growth ""; ""Overview""; ""Econometric Models of Growth""; ""Tests of Simple Growth Models""; ""Conclusion""; ""Ch 9. Policy Failures and Growth Miracles  ""; ""Growth Successes and Failures""; ""Explanations for Failure""; ""Structural Breaks in Growth""

""Explaining Growth Acceleration""""Ch 10. Mercantilism and Miracles ""; ""Defining Mercantilism""; ""Mercantilism and Growth""; ""Miracle Economies""; ""Ch 11. Institutions versus Exchange Rate Policy ""; ""The Conventional Wisdom""; ""New Evidence""; ""Institutional Measures""; ""Institutions and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence""; ""Ch 12. Currency Undervaluation: A Time-Tested Policy for Growth ""; ""Nineteenth-Century Exchange Rates""; ""Tariffs and Growth""; ""The Yen Exchange Rate in 1950""; ""Ch 13. Economics of the Yen and the Renminbi ""; ""Japan in the 1980's and China in the 2010's""

"""China Is Different""; ""Revisiting Paul Samuelson""; ""Ch 14. Changing Times, Changing Views ""; ""Currency Wars""; ""Why Currency Undervaluation?""; ""Evidence of Malfunctions and Imbalances""; ""The Seductive Appeal of Currency Undervaluation""; ""One Country's Ceiling Is Another Country's Floor's Evidence on Stolen Growth""; ""Breaking the Cycle""; ""Ch 15. Conclusion ""; ""Currency Undervaluation Affects Investment and Generates Growth ""; ""The Dual of Currency Undervaluation Is Currency Overvaluation""

""The Real Exchange Rate Can Be Influenced by the Nominal Exchange Rate ""