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Growing Apart : Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334362
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The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya
Dupas, Pascaline - 2015
The welfare impact of expanding access to bank accounts depends on whether accounts crowd out pre-existing financial relationships, or whether private gains from accounts are shared within social networks. To study the effect of accounts on financial linkages, we provided free bank accounts to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457329
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Value Chain Microfinance
Casaburi, Lorenzo; Willis, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the provision of financial services to small firms, consumers, and workers in developing countries as part of value chain relationships: value chain microfinance (VCMF). We first explore how VCMF can both overcome barriers to financial access - including asymmetric information,...
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Adjustment of State Owned and Foreign-Funded Enterprises in China to Economic Reforms,1980s-2007 : a logistic smooth transition regression (LSTR) approach
Aizenman, Joshua - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463377
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Initial Public Offering and Corporate Governance in China's Transitional Economy
Hsun, Chen-Chien - 2003
that the only industries in which listed companies in China display strong performance are public utilities, transportation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469125
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The Razor's Edge : Distortions and Incremental Reform in the People's Republic of China
Young, Alwyn - 2000
forward. In this paper I illustrate this idea with a study of the People's Republic of China. Under the plan, prices were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470915
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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions
Cohen, Alma - 2018
This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453103
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China's Gradualistic Economic Approach and Financial Markets
Brunnermeier, Markus K. - 2017
China's gradualistic approach allowed the government to learn how the economy reacts to small policy changes, and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455487
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Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand : Evidence from Urban China
Iyer, Lakshmi - 2013
private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458930
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The Role Of Intangible Capital in the Transformation and Growth of the Chinese Economy
Hulten, Charles R. - 2012
. This evidence suggests that intangible capital formation may play an important role in China's reform-driven transformation … no general assessment of its role in China's rapid economic growth. This paper seeks to fill this gap by estimating how … China's recent growth is then assessed using a growth accounting framework, and the results compared to similar findings for …
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