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The establishment of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in December 1990 was a landmark in China's institutional … assess the operational performance of listed companies, and changes in the external environment such as the impact of China … name a few. They argue that the fundamental reason for the inefficiency of China's stock market is the weakness of the …
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gender gap in this hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female …
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Contents: Preface -- PART I A historic transformation: heterogeneity in CESEE in a changing global context -- 1 Looking back on 30 years of transition - and looking 30 years ahead / Robert Holzmann -- 2 1989: the year of the great ambivalence / Anton Pelinka -- 3 The price of unity: the...
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This unique book provides a comprehensive survey of the major economic issues that have helped shape the modern world. It includes discussions of the latest research findings in the international economic development literature and scrutinises some of the most important debates in contemporary...
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We document a statistical association between the severity of the persecution and mass murder of Jews (the Holocaust) by the Nazis during World War II and long-run economic and political outcomes within Russia. Cities that experienced the Holocaust most intensely have grown less, and cities as...
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added production function of the State Owned (SOE) and Foreign-Funded Enterprises (FFE) in China, 1980s-2007. The transition … associated with the economic reforms in China is estimated applying a curvilinear logistic function, where the speed and the …
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that the only industries in which listed companies in China display strong performance are public utilities, transportation …
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forward. In this paper I illustrate this idea with a study of the People's Republic of China. Under the plan, prices were …
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This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing … 17 percent of the baseline gender sentence gap, respectively. These differences cannot be explained by other judge …
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China's gradualistic approach allowed the government to learn how the economy reacts to small policy changes, and to …
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