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Just when China’s leaders receive conflicting signals of “overheating” and “below-potential growth”, they encounter … challenges have their roots in China’s inadequate marketization and continued discrimination against the domestic private sector … themselves into nonperforming loans. In partially-reformed China, public-directed investments via the state enterprises tend to …
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This paper links banking with asset prices in a monetary macroeconomic model. The main innovation is to consider how … falling asset prices affect the banking system through wide-spread borrower default, while deriving explicit solutions and …-linear, and involves feedback from the banking system in the form of credit contraction. When borrowers repay, the effect ‘passes …
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mainly to fast increase of inputs. Young (2000) also estimated the TFP growth rate of China to be 1.4% per year during the … the non-agricultural economy (of China) during the reform period is respectable, but not outstanding.' China's real GDP …
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about the extent of initial poverty and the rate of subsequent poverty reduction in China, India, and the rest of the … the extent and trend of poverty in China, India, and the rest of the developing world, world poverty may or may not have …
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economic outcomes in China. In this article, we construct a set of (rural, urban, total) provincial- level spatial price … provide illustrations of the significant effect of ignoring spatial price differences in the analysis of China’s economy. …
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A nonstochastic Malmquist Index and a stochastic frontier production function are estimated to examine agricultural productivity growth in Chinese provinces during the 1990’s. Results for both methods indicate high productivity growth in the mid 1990’s with a declining trend thereafter....
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We link banking and asset prices in a simple monetary macroeconomic model. Our main innovation is to consider how wide …-spread default affects the banking system. We find that the interaction of credit, asset prices, and loan losses explains a complete … whether a capital crunch, financial instability, or a banking crisis occurs. But self-fulfilling capital crunches and banking …
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We examine whether two commonly used indicators of bank fragility, the subordinated debt spread and KMV’s distance to default, yield signals in line with supervisors’ interests. We argue that supervisors would prefer indicators that are strictly increasing in earnings, and decreasing in...
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This paper presents a more realistic endogenous time preference model, incorporating the property that impatience decreases as consumption increases. The model overcomes a serious drawback of the existing model, which needs the assumption of increasing impatience. The new model is applied to the...
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The efficiency of speculative markets, as represented by Fama's 1970 fair game model, is tested on weekly price index data of six Asian stock markets - Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand - using Sherry's (1992) non-parametric methods. These scientific testing methods...
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