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| Title: | | Financial versus monetary mercantilism: Long-run view of large international reserves hoarding  |
| Authors: | | Aizenman, Joshua Lee, Jaewoo |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working Papers, Santa Cruz Center for International Economics 06-15 |
| Abstract: | | The sizable hoarding of international reserves by several East Asian countries has been frequently attributed to a modern version of monetary mercantilism hoarding international reserves in order to improve competitiveness. From a long-run perspective, manufacturing exporters in East Asia adopted financial mercantilismsubsidizing the cost of capital during decades of high growth. They switched to hoarding large international reserves when growth faltered, making it harder to disentangle the monetary mercantilism from precautionary response to the heritage of past financial mercantilism. Monetary mercantilism also lowers the cost of hoarding, but may be associated with negative externalities leading to competitive hoarding. |
| Subjects: | | mercantilism cost of capital competitive real depreciations self insurance precautionary hoarding |
| JEL: | | F15 F31 F43 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Santa Cruz Institute for International Economics, UC Santa Cruz
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