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What were the economic consequences of the usury doctrine in the Middle Ages?  We examine how merchants attempted to evade the prohibition on interest and the attempts of the Church to clamp down on evasion.  Contrary to the views of many economists and historians, the usury prohibition...
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This is a pioneering study of the determinants of the subjective well-being of ethnic minority people in rural China …
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determinants of subjective well-being.  Less attention has been paid to its normative implications.  Taking China as a case study …
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, industries and regions, we find that corporate investment in China has become increasingly efficient over time.  However, based … good explanation for China's overinvestment, especially for the private sector, while in the sector, overinvestment is …
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This paper attempts to address a puzzle in China's investment pattern: despite high aggregate investment and remarkable …
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appropriate data set for China.  The tests favour the early theories.  Implications are drawn. …
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China and the United States.  We construct a firm-level dataset by matching USPTO and SIPO patents to Chinese manufacturing … China are considerably younger, larger and substantially more export-oriented than firms patenting exclusively in China ….  Our study contributes to the debate on China's innovative prowess and its potential to transition from an imitator to an …
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generate a poverty trap.  The setting is rural China, and the data are from a national household survey for 2002, designed with … research hypotheses in mind.  Enrolment is high in rural China by comparison with most poor rural societies, but the quality of …
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there is strong son preference in rural China, we postulate two main hypotheses: income-based sex selection making it more …, this is the first study to test these hypotheses in rural China and more generally in developing countries. …
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This paper provides micro-level evidence that drug advertising regulations and inspections in China are used by local … inherent in a partially reformed economy such as China. …
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