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Assessing Competition in Philippine Markets
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper reviews the current empirical literature on competition and market structure of Philippine industries. It shows that weak competition is one of the fundamental factors that explain limited growth, productivity, and employment in the economy. Philippine experience has shown that...
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Policies for Industrial Learning in China and Mexico
Gallagher, Kevin P.; Shafaeddin, Mehdi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Previous work has shown that the results of both China and Mexicos export-led market reforms over the past quarter … century have been strikingly different. In contrast to China, Mexico has not managed to increase the value added of its … exports of manufactured goods and has subsequently had a difficult time competing with China in world markets. Building on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365144
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Chinese Lessons : State Owned Enterprises and the Regulation of Foreign Investment in Canada
Woo, Yuen Pau - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
debates on the regulation of foreign investment. Particular attention has been placed on investment by state-owned enterprises … (SOEs), driven in part by public suspicion about investment from China, which has been the largest source of SOE capital …
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Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board and the Regulation of Chinese Investment
Mendelsohn, Rebecca; Fels, Allan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
Foreign investment has played an important role in the Australian economy since the country's foundation. Part of the latest wave of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Australia has been by Chinese firms, and largely by state-owned enterprises with connections to the Chinese state. Despite the...
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The Structure of Agricultural Trade Industry in Developing Countries
Briones, Roehlano M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
Expansion of global trade has been heralded as a great boon for agriculture. However, benefits of such expansion has been seen by some quarters as inequitable due to the role of large agribusiness firms and conglomerates. This study synthesizes existing research on the market structure of...
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On the Segmentation of Markets
Jacquet, Nicolas L.; Tan, Serene - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper endogenizes the market structure of an economy with heterogeneous agents who want to form bilateral matches in the presence of search frictions and when utility is non-transferable. We depart from standard matching models where all agents are assumed to be in a unique meeting place by...
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THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC REFORMS ON INDIAN MANUFACTURERS : EVIDENCE FROM A SMALL SAMPLE SURVEY
Siggel, Eckhard; Agrawal, Pradeep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Although there has been much theorising on the impact of Indias economic reforms of 1991 on Indian manufacturers, there is hardly any previous study that has taken up the task of actually asking the manufacturing firms as to what the true impact of economic reforms has been on them. In this...
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Acceleration of Economic Reform in Japan and the Role of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy
Hosen, Mitsuo - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Creation of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy (CEFP) made Japans economic and fiscal policy making more transparent, consistent and coherent. This new institutional arrangement accelerated structural reform and improved economic and fiscal policy making in general, thus contributing to...
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Indian Capital Control Liberalization : Evidence from NDF Markets
Hutchison, Michael; Kendall, Jake; Pasricha, Gurnain; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The Indian government has taken a number of incremental measures to liberalise legal and administrative impediments to international capital movements in recent years. This paper analyses the extent to which the effectiveness of capital controls in India, measured by the domestic less net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363806
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Central Asia’s Transition After Fifteen Years : Growth and Policy Choices
Dowling, Malcolm; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper presents a coherent and systematic analysis of the collapse and subsequent revival of the Central Asian Republics (CARs) since 1990. The focus is on the pattern of growth and structural change during the cycle of decline and subsequent revival in the CARs which have been inadequately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363926