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The Travails of Current Macroeconomic and Exchange Rate Management in China: The Complications of Switching to a New Growth Engine
Woo, Wing Thye - EconWPA - 2003
stimulus to keep growth on track and the promotion of financial market development via recapitalizing the state banks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062405
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Nonparametric Efficiency Testing of Asian Stock Markets Using Weekly Data
LOS, CORNELIS A. - EconWPA - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076962
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The 1998 Third Annual Survey of Risk Management Practices of Unit Trusts in Singapore
LOS, CORNELIS A. - EconWPA - 2004
Liberalization of Singapore's financial sector causes its fund management industry to expand rapidly. As of December 1, 1998 there were 191 unit trusts to choose from. Eventually, Singapore, like the USA and Hong Kong, will have more unit trusts than stocks listed on its exchange. Many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076989
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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF A WEAK JUDICIARY: INSIGHTS FROM INDIA
Koehling, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2002
This paper examines the empirical relationship between the quality of the Indian judiciary and the economic development … of the Indian States and Union Territories. It evaluates this causality by analysing the development of the state …, such as agricultural production, private sector development, capital formation, poverty rates, public security and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412513
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Corruption, Governance and Security: Challenges for the Rich Countries and the World
Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2004
Traditionally, national governance and corruption challenges have been seen as: i) particularly daunting in the poorer countries, with the richer world viewed as exemplary; ii) anchored within a legalistic framework and focused on formal institutions, iii) a challenge within public sectors, and,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408399
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MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT OF HAPPINESS : A PRIORITY IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Dr.VSR.Subramaniam - EconWPA - 2005
, Local, International and Universal in nature. Author’s Research and Development approach for these vicious combination … infers that, all nations, irrespective their level of development, should evaluate Productivity/Management Decisions with … reference to Socio-Economic Development units, and Intangible components should have priority over Tangibles (Algebraic Model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408439
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Macroeconomic evolution after a shock: the role for financial intermediation
Vinogradov, Dmitri - EconWPA - 2003
An overlapping generations model with two production factors and two types of agents is considered in presence of …nancial intermediation. The research focuses at the analysis of the consequences of a suddain negative production shock on a …nancial intermediation capacities and consequently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126268
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An approach to bank insolvency in transition and emerging economies
Mayes, David G. - EconWPA - 2004
In the light of the inequity of the way losses from bank insolvencies and their avoidance through intervention by the authorities have been distributed over creditors, depositors, owners and the population at large in transition and emerging economies, this paper explores a number of regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134654
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Banks versus Markets in Processing the Payments Shock
Vinogradov, Dmitri - EconWPA - 2005
The paper focuses on a comparison of bank-based andmarket-based …nancial systems with respect to their ability to smooth the negative consequences of a macroeconomic shock. The model describes a two-market OLG economy with two types of agents (workers and entrepreneurs) and a financial system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134734
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Analysis of UAE Bank Stocks
Rao, Ananth - EconWPA - 2003
Listing of stocks on the stock exchange offers business firms several advantages such as diversification, liquidity, establishing a value for the firm etc. The present paper analyses stocks of six commercial banks (viz., Dubai Commercial Bank, Emirates Bank International, National Bank of Dubai,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413135