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Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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Knowledge Sources of Innovation in a Small, Open Economy: The Case of Singapore

Wong, Poh Kam; Ho, Yuen Ping - EconWPA - 2005

knowledge for innovation output in Singapore, a small, highly open economy that has traditionally been significantly dependent … Singaporean firms depends disproportionately on technological knowledge produced by MNCs with operational presence in Singapore … universities constitute an insignificant, albeit rapidly growing, source for innovation in Singapore. …

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Labor Productivity and Inter-Sectoral Reallocation of Labor in Singapore (1965-2002)

Akkemik, K. Ali - EconWPA - 2005

decomposition of aggregate productivity growth in Singapore over the period 1965-2002. The static shift-share analysis is utilized …

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On Singaporean Dollar-U.S. Dollar and Purchasing Power Parity

Liew, Venus Khim-Sen; Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi; Lim, … - EconWPA - 2003

This study re-examines the validity of relationship between Singapore Dollar-US Dollar exchange rate and the relative … Smooth Transition Autoregressive (ESTAR)- type non-linear mean-reverting adjustment process of the nominal Singapore dollar … Singapore Dollar-US Dollar exchange rate and consumer price index ratio, this study shows that the relationship is in fact non …

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On Singaporean Dollar and Purchasing Power Parity

Liew, Venus Khim-Sen; Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi; Lim, … - EconWPA - 2004

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Mass Attitudes Toward Financial Crisis and Economic Reform in Korea

Hayo, Bernd; Shin, Doh - EconWPA - 2002

This paper addresses an aspect of the financial crisis in South Korea that has not been dealt with in depth. The question that will be analyzed is: how does the general population perceive the crisis? In attempting to answer this question we rely on new representative survey data, covering the...

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Why the Japanese Taxpayer Always Loses

Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

The tax office wins most cases in Japan. We think about why this might be. We find that although judges who rule in …

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Why Is the Japanese Conviction Rate So High?

Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

Conviction rates in Japan exceed 99 percent -- why? On the one hand, because Japanese prosecutors are badly …

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Manufactured Import Prices: The Case of Japan

Wickremasinghe, Guneratne Banda; Silvapulle, Param - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the exchange rate pass-through to yen based manufactured import prices of Japan using asymmetric … shown that the recession in Japan in the 1990s has significantly affected the exchange rate passthrough relationship …

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Factor Endowments, Trade Direction, and Growth Performances of the Americas and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997

-endowment based trade and economic ties with the secondary advanced economy (first the U.S. and then Japan) played important roles in … the pre-WWII growth of Japan, Southeast Asia's growth in the 1970s and the 1980s, and its economic crisis in the mid-1990s. …

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