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Reportedly, firms often find it impossible to finance large and long-term projects despite positive net present values. Should governments step in and can their assistance be effective? This paper studies the case of public export credit guarantees in Germany. Covering the default risk of...
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In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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This private sector assessment reviews Fiji’s private sector environment in 2006–2012, against recommendations made in ADB’s 2005 Promise Unfulfilled: Private Sector Assessment for Fiji. While fiji has made considerable reform progress in a number of areas (including tax reforms,...
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firms in China. Using a unique and detailed dataset on manufacturing firms in China, we are able to follow the changes in … location patterns of firms between 2002 and 2008. Our analysis shows that firms in China are more localized than in the UK or … state-owned firms. Our findings are consistent with the notion that China is increasingly liberalizing its economy, enabling …
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This paper investigates the time-varying impact of oil price uncertainty on stock prices in China using weekly data on …
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euro-dollar rate, whatever the exchange-rate regime of China. Moving to a dynamic, stock-flow framework, we show that the …
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We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … China, furthermore, appears to be close to the level associated with optimal speed of transition. …
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China has been provoked into speeding renmnibi internationalization. But despite rapid growth in offshore financial … could attract even more hot money inflows, the People’s Bank of China should focus on tightly stabilizing the yuan/ dollar … exchange rate to encourage naturally high wage increases for balancing China’s international competitiveness. …
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China. We demonstrate that drug advertising inspections are used by provincial governments to discriminate against firms …
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