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Relative Returns on Equities in Pacific Basin Countries

Engel, Charles - 1994

We examine the factors that determine the differences in ex ante returns on equities in eleven Pacific Basin countries. Our concern is whether real return differentials are primarily caused by nominal return differentials or expected changes in real exchange rates. We find that nominal return...

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Accounting for Outward Direct Investment from Hong Kong and Singapore : Who Controls What?

Low, Linda - 1996

After a brief introduction and examination of the economic rationale for accounting for foreign direct investment (FDI), we survey information on outward investors from Hong Kong and Singapore with the aim of illuminating the implications of accounting for such FDI by geographical source or by...

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Foreign direct investment

Froot, Kenneth (ed.) - 1993

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Affiliates of U.S. and Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...

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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income …

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Affiliate Activity in Japanese and U.S. Multinationals and Japanese Exports, 1986-1995

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001

This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic … in the context of a typical gravity model explaining the cross-country variation of Japan's manufacturing exports. Second …. The level of Japan's manufactured exports to a country is almost always positively related to employment in foreign …

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Stock Market Stimulus

Greenwood, Robin; Laarits, Toomas; Wurgler, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the stock market effects of the arrival of the three rounds of "stimulus checks" to U.S. taxpayers and the single round of direct payments to Hong Kong citizens. The first two rounds of U.S. checks appear to have increased retail buying and share prices of retail-dominated portfolios....

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Science and engineering careers in the United States : an analysis of markets and employment

Freeman, Richard B. (contributor); … - 2009

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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2000

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between these two changes and how each was shaped by the...

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A Bridge to Graduation : Post-Secondary Effects of an Alternative Pathway for Students Who Fail High School Exit Exams

Lincove, Jane Arnold; Mata, Catherine; Cortes, Kalena E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate with a set of basic skills and knowledge. Evidence suggests that a common perverse effect of exit exams is an increase in dropout for students who have difficulty passing...

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