Financial versus monetary mercantilism: Long-run view of large international reserves hoarding

World Economy

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 593-611

  Aizenman, Joshua ^a   Lee, Jaewoo ^b  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; ECONOMIC SYSTEM; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL SYSTEM;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 41849122714     PISSN: 03785920     EISSN: 14679701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2008.01095.x     Document Type: Article

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