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Asian Development Outlook Supplement December 2013

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB); … - 2013

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2009 Purchasing Power Parity Update Selected Economies in Asia and the Pacific, A Research Study

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012

This report presents the research initiative to explore an alternative methodology for extrapolating purchasing power parities (PPPs) for 21 participating economies in the Asia and Pacific region. The 2009 PPP Update provides an intermediate benchmark and more firmly based real expenditures and...

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Asian Development Bank Technical Assistance for Legal Development in the People’s Republic of China: A Review

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012

Prepared by the Office of the General Counsel under the Law and Policy Reform program of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), this publication highlights the significant impact of ADB’s technical assistance for legal development in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It also demonstrates the...

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Towards a Legal Theory of Finance

Pistor, Katharina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper develops the building blocks for a legal theory of finance. LTF holds that financial markets are legally … self-destruction of the financial system. This law-finance paradox tends to be resolved by suspending the full force of law … finance is concentrated around ultimate lenders of last resort and why regulating finance’s core has become so elusive. It …

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The Impact of Liquidity Regulation on Bank Intermediation

Bonner, Clemens; Eijffinger, Sylvester C W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We analyze the impact of non-compliance with a requirement similar to the Basel III Liquidity Coverage Ratio and its impact on bank intermediation applying Regression Discontinuity Designs. Using a unique dataset on Dutch banks, we show that non-compliance with a liquidity requirement causes...

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Access to Finance: Developing the Microinsurance Market in Mongolia

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

Mongolia experienced a challenging transition from socialist economy to market economy from 1990 onwards. Its commercial insurance market is still at its infancy, with gross written premiums in 2013 amounting to only 0.54% of gross domestic production. ADB undertook this technical assistance...

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ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard: Country Reports and Assessments 2012-2013

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

Corporate governance principles provide guidance on how corporations should operate and can be useful to attract foreign investments. In the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), countries use national methodologies to assess corporate governance performance of publicly listed...

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Asian Development Outlook Suplement (July 2013)

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

The Asian Development Outlook (ADO) envisaged tepid growth in the major industrial economies over the forecast horizon.

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The Argentina Paradox: Microexplanations and Macropuzzles

Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

The economic history of Argentina presents one of the most dramatic examples of divergence in the modern era. What happened and why? This paper reviews the wide range of competing explanations in the literature and argues that, setting aside deeper social and political determinants, the various...

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Public–Private Partnerships in Urbanization in the People's Republic of China

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

August 2013. The workshop was organized by the Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Asian …

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