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Killion, M. Ulric - EconWPA - 2004

er Chinese neo-liberalism in answer to issues of reforms and Chinese constitutionalism. A Chinese neo … historicity of Western liberalism and China's ontological base in tradition, being Confucianism. The historic excesses and abuses … of liberalism should serve to frustrate a transplant of neo-liberal constitutionalism in China. …

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Political Change, Economic Transition and Catalysis of IMF and World Bank Models - the case of Malawi

Stambuli, Kalonga - EconWPA - 2002

This paper investigates whether or not there is a recognizable pattern of cohesion in economic policy formulation between poor countries (on one hand) and the IMF and World Bank (on the other hand) in the context of change in domestic political dispensation. Malawi provides an appropriate study...

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Between Liberalism and Democracy

Samet, Dov; Schmeidler, David - EconWPA - 1999

We study a class of voting rules that bridge between majoritarianism and liberalism. An outcome of the vote specifies …

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

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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Price Adjustments and Asymmetry in the Philippine Retail Gasoline Market

Salas, John Michael Ian S. - EconWPA - 2002

This paper employs ordered probit, partial adjustment, and vector error correction models to characterize price adjustments in the Philippine retail gasoline market since its deregulation. It finds that pricing decisions of oil firms depend significantly on eight weeks of previous changes in...

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Deforestation and Land Use Changes Induced by the East Asian Economic Crisis

Pagiola, Stefano - EconWPA - 2004

affected countries. It focuses on three main countries—Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The analysis shows that there … continuum of effects, with Indonesia most heavily hit, the Philippines the least so, and Thailand somewhere in between. (b …

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The Philippine Central Bank's Monetary Policy Reaction Function from 1992 to 2003

Salas, John Michael Ian S. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper attempts to provide an empirical determination of the Philippine central bank's (BSP) recent monetary policy stance, before and after its adoption of the inflation targeting framework, as revealed by its interest rate setting behavior. Employing Clarida, Gali, and Gertler's (1998,...

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The Effect of National Policies and Labor Market on Land Use Decisions in Developing Countries: An Application of Maximum Simulated Likelihood to System of Censored Acreages with P...

Demeke, Bayou; Coxhead, Ian - EconWPA - 2005

Philippines. We present multi-output profit maximizing model to elicit the role of relative prices on land allocation between …

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Recognizing Investment Opportunities at the Onset of Recoveries

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

Investment decision-making is modeled by means of a Kohonen neural net, where neurons represent firms. This is done in order to model investments in novel fields of economic activity, that according to this model are carried out when firms recognize the emergence of a new technological pattern....

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Neural correlates of the affect heuristic during brand choice

Plassmann, Hilke; Kenning, Peter; Deppe, Michael; … - EconWPA - 2005

In this working paper it is investigated how affect and cognition interact in consumer decision making. The research …

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