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The Government and the Financial System : an Overview
Ikeo, Kazuhito; Goto, Yasuo - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
government, and for the government will be surveyed in turn. Furthermore, postal system privatization will be discussed in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363882
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Impacts of Privatization on Employment - Evidence from China
Huang, Lingwen; Yao, Yang - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper evaluates the impact of privatization on firm employment using a panel dataset of 386 firms in China in the … the dynamic impact of privatization on employment growth and find that the performance of privatized firms improves over … time. These findings are robust even after we control other performance and financial variables as well as the pre-privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365342
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The Determinants of Cross-border M&As : the Role of Institutions and Financial Development in Gravity Model
Hyun, Hea-Jung; Kim, Hyuk Hwang - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper examines the macroeconomic determinants of cross border M&As. Using a panel data set of bilateral M&A deal values for 101 countries and 17 years ranging from 1989 to 2005, we investigate both home and host country factors that may play an important role in determining the size and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363870
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Managing Capital Flows : The Case of the Philippines
Yap, Josef T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
During the past five years or so, most East Asian economies including the Philippines experienced a rising level of foreign exchange reserves and rapidly appreciating currencies both in nominal and real terms. One cause has been the resurgence of capital flows, which makes the issue of how to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363497
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Assessing the Effects of Privatisation, Competition and Regulation on Economic Performance : The Case of Electricity Sector Reform
Zhang, Yin-Fang; Parker, David; Kirkpatrick, Colin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
Over the last two decades electricity sectors in both developed and developing countries have been subject to restructuring to introduce private capital and increase competition. This has been accompanied by the introduction of new regulatory regimes. Although the effects of such reforms in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363506
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Regional Financial Arrangements and the International Monetary Fund
Eichengreen, Barry - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The rise of regional monetary arrangements poses a challenge for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s global surveillance efforts. This paper reviews how the IMF has responded to earlier regional initiatives, from the European Payments Union of the 1950s and the Gold Pool of the 1960s to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278037
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Regional Financial Arrangements and the International Monetary Fund
Eichengreen, Barry - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The rise of regional monetary arrangements poses a challenge for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s global surveillance efforts. This paper reviews how the IMF has responded to earlier regional initiatives, from the European Payments Union of the 1950s and the Gold Pool of the 1960s to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278132
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Sovereign Risk : A Macro-Financial Perspective
Das, Udaibir S.; Oliva, Maria A.; Tsuda, Takahiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
We examine some of the macro-financial dimensions of sovereign risk and propose a conceptual framework that captures risks other than just the default risk. Morphed under a multi-dimensional notion of sovereign risk, we argue that the existing empirical methodologies to measure sovereign risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278143
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Regional Financial Arrangements and the International Monetary Fund
Eichengreen, Barry - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The rise of regional monetary arrangements poses a challenge for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s global surveillance efforts. This paper reviews how the IMF has responded to earlier regional initiatives, from the European Payments Union of the 1950s and the Gold Pool of the 1960s to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278187
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Sovereign Risk : A Macro-Financial Perspective
Das, Udaibir S.; Oliva, Maria A.; Tsuda, Takahiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
We examine some of the macro-financial dimensions of sovereign risk and propose a conceptual framework that captures risks other than just the default risk. Morphed under a multi-dimensional notion of sovereign risk, we argue that the existing empirical methodologies to measure sovereign risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278199