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Income Taxes and Women's Economic Dependency: A Comparison of West Germany and Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

Swedish wives' market earnings contribute 39% of the net family earnings of couples living together. German wives contribute 12%. This paper employs Swedish and German micro data on earnings and personal characteristics of couples. After tax earnings are simulated, under both the tax system of...

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A Macro-Theoretic Model of the Chinese Economy

Dixon, Huw David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

A stylized model of the Chinese economy is developed with three production sectors: agriculture, non-traded industrial goods, and industrial exports. The state purchases food from farmers by dual-track pricing; urban food sales are subsidized through ration coupons. Marginal prices clear markets...

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital...

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Growing like China

Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper constructs a growth model that is consistent with salient features of the Chinese growth experience since 1992: high output growth, sustained returns on capital investments, extensive reallocation within the manufacturing sector, falling labor share and accumulation of a large foreign...

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Globalization and Inequality: Evidence from within China

Wei, Shang-Jin; Wu, Yi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …

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Regional Decentralization and the Soft Budget Constraint: The Case of China

Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The majority of enterprises in China are controlled by local governments at the provincial, city, county, township and … lower-level governments of townships and villages in China. …

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China, GMOs and World Trade in Agricultural and Textile Products

Anderson, Kym; Yao, Shunli - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

China has always strived for self-sufficiency in farm products, particularly staple foods. Its rapid industrialization … for China, since it is prospectively not only a major producer and consumer of GM farm products but also a potential … exporter of some of them. It explores the potential economic effects of China not adopting versus adopting GMOs when some of …

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Chinese Currency Controversies

Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper reviews the controversy over China’s exchange rate regime. Placing the issue in the context of the … literature on exit strategies, it argues that now is the best time for China to exit from its peg. Moving to a managed float …

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Rebalancing Growth in China: A Three-Handed Approach

Blanchard, Olivier J; Giavazzi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Our paper is an attempt to define the contours of the right macroeconomic strategy for China. In a nutshell, we believe …

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FDI Spillovers in the Chinese Manufacturing Sector: Evidence of firm heterogeneity

Abraham, Filip; Konings, Jozef; Slootmaekers, Veerle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

higher in the special economic zone aimed at attracting foreign capital to fasten the development of China’s own high tech …

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