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Economic Openess, Disciplined Government and Ethnic Peace
Kumaran, Nava Ravi; Abeysinghe, Tilak - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
set everything right is utopian. In this exercise we argue that openess to foreign trade and investment is a more assured …
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What Determines Private Investment? The Case of Pakistan
Khan, Sajawal; Khan, Muhammad Arshad - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This study is an attempt to analyse the determinants of private investment in Pakistan over the period 1972-2005. The … investment. The results show that most traditional factors have little or no impact on private investment. These results may … prerequisites for private investment to flourish. We find partial support for the accelerator principle and the crowding …
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How Should We Bank With Foreigners?—An Empirical Assessment of Lending Behavior of International Banks to Six East Asian Economies
Pontines, Victor; Siregar, Reza Y. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The possible crucial role of international bank lending in transmitting adverse economic disturbance from developed economies to emerging economies in the 2008–2009 global financial crisis has placed capital flows into sharper scrutiny in academic and policy discussions. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278020
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How Should We Bank With Foreigners?—An Empirical Assessment of Lending Behavior of International Banks to Six East Asian Economies
Pontines, Victor; Siregar, Reza Y. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The possible crucial role of international bank lending in transmitting adverse economic disturbance from developed economies to emerging economies in the 2008–2009 global financial crisis has placed capital flows into sharper scrutiny in academic and policy discussions. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278114
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A Comparative Study of Regional Labour Dynamics in Japan
Kawagoe, Masaaki - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2004
Japanese corporations and American and European corporations take different approaches when it comes to business in China in general : (i) American corporations are concentrated in the music, motion picture, and software industries, so they have a particular interest in solving copyright...
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The effect of Strategic Sale of Banks : Evidence from Indonesia
Parinduri, Rasyad A.; Riyanto, Yohanes E. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
We examine the eect of strategic sale the sale of banks to strategic foreign investors on banks performance. The Government of Indonesia implemented such a policy as a part of bank restructuring in the aftermath of the 1998 banking crisis. Using difference-in-difference models, we find that...
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Cross-Border M&A Inflows and the Quality of Institutions : A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis
Hur, Jung; Parinduri, Rasyad A.; Riyanto, Yohanes E. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper provides an empirical explanation to the observed disparity in cross-border M&A inflows to developing and developed countries over the last two decades. We show two main results. First, the disparity can be attributed to the difference in the quality of institutions between the two...
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Financial Liberalisation, Crises, and Economic Growth
Lee, Inkoo; Shin, Jonghyup - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
It has been widely recognized that financial liberalization plays an important role in economic development. Although an expanding body of literature has documented this effect across space and time, the channel through which financial liberalization affects the economic growth remains unclear....
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Do Banks Respond to Capital Requirement? Evidence from Indonesia
Parinduri, Rasyad A.; Riyanto, Yohanes E. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Using dynamic panel data models, we examine the effect of capital requirement on banks behavior in Indonesia. We find inconclusive results. Some banks tend to comply with capital requirement : They increase their capital ratio when their CAR is lower than, or falling towards, the eight percent...
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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...
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