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Requiring developing countries to adopt competition laws has become a standard element in Free Trade Agreements between those countries and developed countries, and in the check list of measures sought by the World Bank and other multilateral institutions. However, there is little reason to...
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This paper discusses how financial crises in emerging Asia and Japan worked as catalysts for legal reforms. The responses of six Asian countries with different legal histories to financial crises that posed similar challenges are of both legal and economic interest. We first provide a...
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This paper discusses how financial crises in emerging Asia and Japan worked as catalysts for legal reforms. The responses of six Asian countries with different legal histories to financial crises that posed similar challenges are of both legal and economic interest. We first provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134390
This paper provides a theoretical framework of dispute settlement to explain the surge in blocking incidence of GATT panel reports during the 1980s and the variations in withdrawn incidence versus total disputes across different decades of the GATT regime. The study first suggests the role of...
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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 …
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The overall conclusion for the case study sectors is as signalled for ease of economic activity more generally that there is a high but not perfect correlation between competition laws and market conditions and outcomes. Competition laws generally make a significant positive contribution, but...
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government, and for the government will be surveyed in turn. Furthermore, postal system privatization will be discussed in terms …
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) with the level of privatization, if the level of privatization is less (more) than certain level. It also shows that … partial privatization is optimal from the social welfare point of view. However, the social welfare maximizing level of … privatization damages the environment most. …
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agricultural rationing, we first check if the model stands up to China's data from 1949-1992, we find that the importance of … consumption is also less than that of investment. Such findings are consistent with the reality of China. …
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The employment shock of late 2008 in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …
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