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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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Financial Health and Firm Productivity : Firm-level Evidence from Viet Nam
Thangavelu, Shandre M.; Chongvilaivan, Aekapol - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
Does financial health shore up firm productivity? This paper empirically investigates this question and presents productivity as another driving factor in translating financial development into real economic progress. Our empirical framework employs Levinsohn and Petrin’s (2003)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134329
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Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants in Gansu, West China
Sun, Sizhong - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper analyses the technical efficiency problem in Gansu Province, West China, using firm-level cross-sectional data. Compared with previous studies, which mostly focus on industries, this paper focuses on a geographic area instead. By applying the stochastic frontier framework, this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363772
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Spatial-Temporal Dimensions of Efficiency among Electric Cooperatives in the Philippines
Lavado, Rouselle F.; Barrios, Erniel B. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The efficiency of 119 electric cooperatives in the Philippines from 1990-2002 is analyzed using a stochastic frontier model augmented with spatial-temporal terms, addressing the underestimation of technical efficiency usually encountered among maximum-likelihood based methods. The model is also...
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Managing Capital Flows in an Economic Community : The Case of ASEAN Capital Account Liberalization
Park, Yung Chul; Takagi, Shinji - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The paper uses the emerging Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community as a motivation to explore the issue of capital flow management in an economic community. Although there is an increasingly shared view that capital flow management measures should be part of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278025
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Deepening Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ Financial Markets
Lee, Choong Lyol; Takagi, Shinji - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
This paper discusses the financial landscape of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a region engaged in building an economic community (a “single market and production baseâ€) by 2015. In particular, it reviews where ASEAN’s financial markets and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278036
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Services as a New Engine of Growth for ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China, and India
Shepherd, Ben; Pasadilla, Gloria - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Development of a vibrant and competitive services sector is a key characteristic of modern economies. In the developed world, services frequently account for two-thirds or three-quarters of all economic activity. The transition from agriculture through manufacturing to a services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278062
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Audiovisual Services in Korea : Market Development and Policies
Song, Yeongkwan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper reviews economic development and the regulatory environment of audiovisual services in the Republic of Korea (hereafter, Korea). The paper specifically examines motion pictures and broadcasting, and discusses what drives or hinders the sector’s trade potential. Korean...
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Asia-Latin America Free Trade Agreements : An Instrument for Inter-Regional Liberalization and Integration?
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Ramizo, Dorothea; Burmeister, Luca - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Trade integration and free trade agreement (FTA)-led cooperation between Asia and Latin America has increased since the early 2000s. Using new criteria, this paper examines whether Asia-Latin America FTAs have facilitated market-led integration by liberalizing trade and behind the border...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278093
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The Causal Relationship between Trade and FDI : Implication for India and East Asian Countries
Cho, Choongjae - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
This study tries to find the causal relationship between bilateral trade and FDI in India and East Asian countries using macroeconomic data and derive policy implications for regional integration. Since the late 2000s, Korea, Japan and Singapore’s trade and FDI with India have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278096