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What determines trust in international organizations? An empirical analysis for the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO

Hessami, Zohal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

So far no existing study has analyzed what determines people’s trust in the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO even though – in the absence of democratic accountability – this is one of the few ways to assess the legitimacy of these institutions. This study is intended to fill this gap in...

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The Demand for Medical Care in Urban China

Mocan, H. Naci - 2000

China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health …

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A Forensic Examination of China's National Accounts

Chen, Wei - 2019

China's national accounts are based on data collected by local governments. However, since local governments are … rewarded for meeting growth and investment targets, they have an incentive to skew local statistics. China's National Bureau of …

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Business Cycle during Structural Change : Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective

Storesletten, Kjetil - 2019

fluctuations of China …

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China’s Impact on Global Financial Markets

Agarwal, Isha - 2019

We analyze shifts in the structure of China's capital outflows over the past decade. The composition of gross outflows … enormous pool of domestic savings could have a significant impact on global financial markets as China continues to open up its … foreign portfolio allocations, Chinese IIs overweight sectors in which China has a comparative disadvantage. Moreover, Chinese …

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The Consumption Response to Trade Shocks : Evidence from the US-China Trade War

Waugh, Michael E. - 2019

This paper provides evidence on the consumption effects of trade shocks by exploiting changes in US and Chinese trade policy between 2017 and 2018. The analysis uses a unique data set with the universe of new auto sales at the US county level, at a monthly frequency, and a simple...

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Tax Policy and Lumpy Investment Behavior : Evidence from China's VAT Reform

Chen, Zhao - 2019

and that the effectiveness of tax incentives in stimulating investment depends crucially on interactions with investment … frictions. We illustrate these results by studying one of the largest tax incentives for investment in recent history: China …

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Leverage-Induced Fire Sales and Stock Market Crashes

Bian, Jiangze - 2018

We provide direct evidence of leverage-induced fire sales contributing to a market crash using account-level trading data for brokerage- and shadow-financed margin accounts during the Chinese stock market crash of 2015. Margin investors heavily sell their holdings when their account-level...

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The Long-Term Consequences of Having Fewer Children in Old Age : Evidence from China’s “Later, Longer, Fewer” Campaign

Chen, Yi - 2018

Family planning plays a central role in contemporary population policies. However, little is known about its long-term consequences in old age because of the identification challenge. In this study, we examine how family planning affects the quality of life of the Chinese elderly. The direction...

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Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process : Evidence from China

Kuhn, Peter - 2018

We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. Overall, we find that 19 out of 20 callbacks to jobs requesting a particular gender are of the requested gender. Mostly, this is because application pools to...

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