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Ethnic Chinese networks, as proxied by the product of ethnic Chinese population shares, are found in 1980 and 1990 to have increased bilateral trade both within Southeast Asia and for other country pairs. Their effects within Southeast Asia are much greater for differentiated than for...
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doctoral programs offered by universities in industrialized countries. This paper uses the opening of China in 1978 to estimate …. Our identification strategy relies on both the suddenness of the opening of China and on a key feature of scientific …
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closely with a depreciating yen, suggesting the countries' emphasis on export promotion. The Singapore dollar, on the other …
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-binding limits on permanent visas for those from China and India with advanced degrees are significantly associated with declines in …
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We investigate whether Donald Trump's "Chinese Virus" tweets contributed to the rise of anti-Asian incidents. We find that the number of incidents spiked following Trump's initial "Chinese Virus" tweets and the subsequent dramatic rise in internet search activity for the phrase....
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We study roughly 11,000 loans from unlicensed moneylenders to over 1,000 borrowers in Singapore and provide basic …
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rather than the top down. We show an example, for Singapore, of how incomplete data can be used to obtain estimates of … estimates in Singapore and to resolve other empirical puzzles regarding Asian development …
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Singapore's experience with international capital flows over the past two decades or so has been a rather -- although … equities market, and operating on a Currency Board (CB) system (although with some differences from Singapore's CB system). The … discussion serves to identify some 'areas of vulnerability' in the Hong Kong set-up at that time. We next discuss Singapore …
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In countries, such as Singapore, that have implemented vehicle congestion policies, recent years have seen a shift …
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is to assess the money's worth and adverse selection impact of annuities in two countries Singapore and Australia that …
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