Bond Markets As Conduits for Capital Flows : How Does Asia Compare? /

We use data on the extent to which residents of one country hold the bonds of issuers resident in another as a measure of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base case in which the purchaser and issuer of the bonds reside in...

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Huvudupphovsman: Luengnaruemitchai, Pipat
Övriga upphovsmän: Eichengreen, Barry
Materialtyp: Tidskrift
Språk:English
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/238
Länkar:Full text available on IMF
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