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Working Paper
Monetary policy in Taiwan, China
This paper examines how Taiwan, China, has used monetary policy to deal with the impact of the two oil shocks since 1973, as well as with the recent problem of a very large rise in foreign exchange holdings. In dealing with the inflationary pressures brought on by the two oil shocks, the central bank relied primarily on changes in its rediscount rate to reduce inflationary pressures. However, the changes were initially too small and too late to prevent a large rise in consumer prices in 1974 and 1980. Since 1985, the large gains in foreign exchange reserves, due to a rising trade surplus and ...
Journal Article
Taiwan provides test case for financial liberalization
Journal Article
Intervention, sterilization, and monetary control in Korea and Taiwan
This paper uses a four-variable vector autoregression model to explore how monetary authorities responded to shocks in Korea and Taiwan over the period 1981.1-1994.12. The analysis reveals that sterilization is an important element of the response to shocks to foreign assets in both economies. In particular, monetary authorities do not appear to be prepared to accept fluctuations in the exchange rate and the money supply that may result from changes in foreign assets, but more readily accept fluctuations in these variables that result from domestic credit shocks. There are also differences ...
Journal Article
Banking system developments in the four Asian tigers
Conference Paper
Building the legal and regulatory framework
Journal Article
A liberal discussion of financial liberalization
Journal Article
Financial consequences of new Asian surpluses
Journal Article
Taiwan's trade surpluses