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Sports Retailing in India : Opportunities, Constraints and Way Forward
Mukherjee, Arpita; Goswami, Ramneet; Goyal, Tanu M; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Sports retail is a small but fast growing segment of modern retail in India. Recently, the country has been hosting … many international sports and this has given a boost to this sector. Many foreign and domestic corporate retailers have … entered sports retail. Sports goods manufacturing is a focus area in the Foreign Trade Policy (2009-2014) and the government …
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Better Together – or not? Community Participation, Consumption Smoothing and Household Head Employment in Indonesia
Begazo-Gomez, Tania; Fuchs, Alan; Perdana, Ari - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper analyzes whether participation in formal and informal community activities helped household in Indonesia mitigating the impact of the 1998 economic crisis and increasing the probability of household head being employed. The paper uses the 1997 and 2000 round of Indonesian Family Life...
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Does it Pay to Participate?
Perdana, Ari; Matakos, Kostas; Radin, Elizabeth - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper analyzes whether participation in formal and informal community activities helped household in Indonesia mitigating the impact of the 1998 economic crisis. The paper uses the 1997 and 2000 round of Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) to capture the impact of economic crisis on...
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Corporate Governance in Pakistan : Corporate Valuation, Ownership and Financing
Javid, Attiya Y.; Iqbal, Robina - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
In this study the relationship between corporate governance and corporate valuation, ownership structure and need of external financing for the Karachi Stock Market is examined for the period 2003 to 2008. To measure the firm- level governance a rating system is used to evaluate the stringency...
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What Do We Expect from Our Friends?
Leider, Stephen; Mobius, Markus M.; Rosenblat, Tanya; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
We conduct a field experiment in a large real-world social network to examine how subjects expect to be treated by their friends and by strangers who make allocation decisions in modified dictator games. While recipients beliefs accurately account for the extent to which friends will choose more...
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The Impact of R&D and Foreign Direct Investment on Firm Growth in Emerging-Developing Countries : Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industries
Adamou, Adamos; S, Subash - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper examines the impact of R&D and FDI on firm growth for a panel data of Indian manufacturing firms. We argue that besides age and size, FDI and R&D are essential determinants of firm growth. We use GMM estimation for fixed effects panel data models to control for endogenity of R&D and...
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Graduating to Globalisation : A Study of Southern Multinationals
Demirbas, Dilek; Patnaik, Ila; Shah, Ajay - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
FDI by firms in developing countries is a recent phenomenon and demands a study of relationship between firm productivity and different modes of globalisation activities. This paper attempts to understand this relationship through ordered probit models, examining two key hypotheses using firm...
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What Matter for Child Development?
Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper estimates production functions of child cognitive and social development using a panel data of nine-year old children each with over two hundred home and school inputs as well as family background variables. A tree regression method is used to conduct estimation under various...
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Dynamic Treatment Effect Analysis of TV Effects on Child Cognitive Development
Huang, Fali; Lee, Myoung-jae - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
We investigate whether TV watching at ages 6-7 and 8-9 affects cognitive development measured by math and reading scores at ages 8-9 using a rich childhood longitudinal sample from NLSY79. Dynamic panel data models are estimated to handle the unobserved child-specific factor, endogeneity of TV...
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Trade Regimes, Liberalization and Macroeconomic Instability in Africa
Dupasquier, Chantal; Osakwe, Patrick N. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Trade policy has been a very contentious issue in the discourse on African development. Using panel data for 33 African countries spanning the period 1986-2000, we examine the relationship between trade liberalization and macroeconomic instability in Africa. We focus on instabilities in output,...
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