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Ramkishen S. Rajan
Researcher at National University of Singapore
Publications - 286
Citations - 5289
Ramkishen S. Rajan is an academic researcher from National University of Singapore. The author has contributed to research in topics: Exchange rate & Foreign direct investment. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 279 publications receiving 5112 citations. Previous affiliations of Ramkishen S. Rajan include Claremont Graduate University & George Mason University.
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Too Much of a Good Thing? The Adequacy of International Reserves in the Aftermath of Crises
TL;DR: This article revisited the older theory of reserve adequacy and optimality to see whether this can still be used and perhaps strengthened in ways that would inform the current debate, and explored the connection between reserve adequacies and currency crisis in the light of recent experience and empirical research.
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China as a Reserve Sink: The Evidence from Offset and Sterilization Coefficients
TL;DR: It is found that China has been able to successfully sterilize a large portion of these reserve increases thus making it a reserve sink such as Germany was under the Bretton Wood system.
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Too Much of a Good Thing? The Adequacy of International Reserves in the Aftermath of Crises
Graham Bird,Ramkishen S. Rajan +1 more
TL;DR: The authors revisited the older theory of reserve adequacy and optimality to see whether this can still be used and perhaps strengthened in ways that would inform the current debate, and explored the connection between reserve adequacies and currency crisis in the light of recent experience and empirical research.
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(Ir)relevance of currency-crisis theory to the devaluation and collapse of the Thai baht
TL;DR: The authors provided a detailed study of the crisis in Thailand with the goal of determining the usefulness of existing currency crisis theory to the breakdown of the baht's de facto dollar peg in 1997-98.
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Impact of exchange rate volatility on Indonesia's trade performance in the 1990s
Reza Siregar,Ramkishen S. Rajan +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored whether the increased exchange rate variability of the Indonesian rupiah post 1997 may have been a cause for the country's poor export performance, and concluded that failure of the exportables sector to adequately respond to the price incentives is a virtual guarantee that devaluation will be contractionary.