Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/83864 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 627
Publisher: 
University of California, Economics Department, Santa Cruz, CA
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 mercantilism-subsidizing 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

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