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King Kong Meets Godzilla: The World Bank and The East Asian Miracle

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The World Bank's The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy makes official what East Asian specialists had long known: most of the high-performing Asian economies have had extensive government intervention, and some of these interventions, in the areas of credit and exports, have...

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What Happened to Asian Exports During the Crisis?

Duttagupta, Rupa; Spilimbergo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

After the large exchange rate depreciations following the 1997 East Asian crisis, export volumes from East Asian countries responded with a notable lag. Two main explanations for this lag have been proposed: that contraction in domestic credit affected supply of exports; and that ‘competitive...

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Managing the Noodle Bowl: The Fragility of East Asian Regionalism

Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper argues that East Asian regionalism is fragile since (i) each nation's industrial competitiveness depends on the smooth functioning of 'Factory Asia' - in particular on intra-regional trade; (ii) the unilateral tariff-cutting that created 'Factory Asia' is not subject to WTO discipline...

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Commercial Links Between Western Europe and East Asia: Retrospect and Prospects

Anderson, Kym; Francois, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

East Asia has rapidly become the third centre of gravity for global economic activity. North America is relatively well integrated with East Asia, but Europe is not. This paper explores the extent to which economic growth and trade policy developments over the next decade or so will strengthen...

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TFPG Controversies, Institutions, and Economic Performance in East Asia

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The controversy over the appropriate partitioning of East Asian growth into accumulation versus technical change has overlooked a fundamental indeterminacy in measurement. As a result, we cannot rule out the possibility that East Asia has in fact experienced a tremendous amount of technological...

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Trade Strategy, Investment and Exports: Another Look at East Asia

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The export booms in South Korea and Taiwan starting in the early 1960s are anomalous when compared with later export booms in other, non-East Asian countries such as Chile and Turkey. First, these booms have taken place in the context of comparatively small changes in relative prices in favour...

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Competition, Complementarity and Contagion in East Asia

Diwan, Ishac; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper explores to what extent the magnitude and speed of the contagion effects that materialized in East Asia in the second half of 1997 may have had "real" underpinnings, in the sense that the pattern of production, consumption and trade increased the vulnerability of East Asian countries...

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Markups in the Labour and Product Markets and the Relative Performance of Industry and Services: Italy 1951-90

Brunello, Giorgio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

product and in labour markets, in the determination of sectoral employment growth in Italy during the last forty years (1951 …

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Undesirable Redistributions in the Retirement-Public Pension Schemes: The Italian Case Study

Schioppa, Padoa; Kostoris, Fiorella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

This paper uses comparative statistics in a simple three-period overlapping generations model to show that any pay-as-you-go mechanism for public retirement pensions, when adopted in a dualistic economic system, penalises the most dynamic demographic groups, i.e., the <MI>developing<D> rather than the...</d></mi>

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Finance and Development: The Case of Southern Italy

Faini, Riccardo; Giannini, Curzio; Ingrosso, Fulvio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

We look at the role of the financial sector in the context of the relatively backward regions of Southern Italy (the so … considerably riskier than those elsewhere in Italy. It also indicates, however, that risk accounts for only half of the 200 basis … and argue that Southern banks tend to perform their screening function less efficiently than banks in the rest of Italy …

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