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Hiro Ito
Researcher at Portland State University
Publications - 104
Citations - 8037
Hiro Ito is an academic researcher from Portland State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Emerging markets & Exchange rate. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 101 publications receiving 7146 citations.
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A New Measure of Financial Openness
Menzie D. Chinn,Hiro Ito +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new index is proposed to measure the extent of openness in cross-border financial transactions, based on the information from the IMF's Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions (AREAER).
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What Matters for Financial Development? Capital Controls, Institutions, and Interactions
Menzie D. Chinn,Hiro Ito +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether financial openness leads to financial development after controlling for the level of legal development using a panel encompassing 108 countries over the period 1980 to 2000, and find that trade openness is a prerequisite for capital account liberalization while banking system development is a precondition for equity market development.
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Current account balances, financial development and institutions: Assaying the world “saving glut”
Menzie D. Chinn,Hiro Ito +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigate the medium-term determinants of the current account using a model that controls for factors related to institutional development, with a goal of informing the recent debate over the existence and relevance of the savings glut.
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What Matters for Financial Development? Capital Controls, Institutions, and Interactions
TL;DR: In this paper, a panel data analysis encompassing 108 countries and twenty years ranging from 1980 to 2000 was conducted to explore several dimensions of the financial sector, focusing on the links between capital account liberalization, legal and institutional development, and financial development, especially in equity markets.
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The emerging global financial architecture: Tracing and evaluating new patterns of the trilemma configuration
TL;DR: This article investigated how the trilemma policy mix affects economic performance in developing countries and found that greater monetary independence can dampen output volatility, while greater exchange rate stability is associated with greater output volatility.