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This study examines business groups and their impact on corporate governance in Pakistan. We use non-financial firms listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange of Pakistan for 1998-2002 periods in order to select group and non-group samples. Our analysis find that group firms have higher...
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) of Chinese firms. Based on agency theory and the resource-based view, we argue that secondary shareholders, i …
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-level data set from Japan, we show that the turnout effect on the amounts of intergovernmental fiscal transfers is indeed …
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This paper provides structural estimates of heterogeneous returns to work experience for Japanese married women. A dynamic model of labor force participation is used to account for dynamic self-selection into employment. Heterogeneity is incorporated into the model in a way that allows for the...
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when he and his Singaporean counterpart, Goh Chok Tong, signed the Japan-Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement (JSEPA … global trade liberalisation. This paper aims to examine how and why Japan and Singapore decided to pursue FTAs, what … mainly through Singapores initial offer to exclude agricultural products from tariff elimination. But Japan faced problems in …
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Since emerging as a leading industrial economy, Japan has played an important role in promoting Asia Pacific economic … cooperation. Japan has been instrumental in every major initiative in economic cooperation in the region over the past three …
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According to simulation results, the formation of an FTA would substantially improve Koreas and Japans trade balances, while China would experience a sizeable increase in its trade deficit. This indicates that simple barriers (NTBs) within a short period of time is not a feasible approach for...
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changing structure of trade, FDI and economy that underlay policy changes. We argue that until the late 1990s Japan adopted a … Japan-US bilateralism sometimes resulted in managed trade and encountered negative perceptions of the US approach in Japan … integration of Japan with the Asian and global economies. …
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With a declining birthrate and an aging population, Japan is increasingly finding itself in deeper financial …
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Given former Prime Minister Koizumis reformist zeal, agriculture might have been expected to be high on his list of targets for so-called structural reform. However, an investigation of the record of his administration on agricultural policy reveals only modest achievements in terms of policy...
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