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Ethnic Chinese Networks in International Trade
Rauch, James E. - 1999
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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The Impact of Permanent Residency Delays for STEM PhDs : Who leaves and Why
Kahn, Shulamit - 2018
-binding limits on permanent visas for those from China and India with advanced degrees are significantly associated with declines in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480827
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Ethnic Complementarities after the Opening of China : How Chinese Graduate Students Affected the Productivity of Their Advisors
Borjas, George J. - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457570
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Building a Wall Around Science : The Effect of U.S.-China Tensions on International Scientific Research
Flynn, Robert; Glennon, Britta; Murciano-Goroff, Raviv; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper examines the impact of rising U.S.-China geopolitical tensions on three main dimensions of science: STEM … productivity in each country. We examine each dimension from a "U.S." perspective and from a "China" perspective in an effort to … not appear to affect the average productivity of China-based researchers as measured by publications, heightened anti …
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Creating and Connecting US and China Science : Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers
Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of … China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US …-research experience and returned to do their research in China ("returnee"). Analyzing 2018 Scopus data on research papers, we estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322694
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Can Social Media Rhetoric Incite Hate Incidents?$bEvidence from Trump's "Chinese Virus" Tweets
Cao, Andy; Lindo, Jason M.; Zhong, Jiee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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Lessons from the Asian Crisis
Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2000
This paper provides an asymmetric information analysis of the recent East Asian crisis. It then outlines several lessons from this crisis. First, there is a strong rationale for an international lender of last resort. Second, without appropriate conditionality for this lending, the moral hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470928
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Common Fundamentals in the Tequila and Asian Crises
Tornell, Aaron - 1999
The cross-country variation in the severity of the crisis was largely determined by three fundamentals: the strength of the banking system, the real appreciation, and the international liquidity of the country. We also find that the rule that links fundamentals to the crisis severity has been...
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Latin America and East Asia in the Context of an Insurance Model of Currency Crises
Chinn, Menzie D. - 1999
This paper focuses on the 1995 Latin American and 1997 East Asian crises using an insurance-based model of financial crises. First the model of Dooley (forthcoming) is described. Second, some empirical evidence for an insurance model is presented. The key variables in this approach include the...
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The Geopolitics of International Trade in Southeast Asia
Coşar, Kerem - 2020
Motivated by the historically tense geopolitical situation in Southeast Asia, we simulate the potential closure of key maritime waterways in the region to predict the impact on trade and welfare. We generate initial (unobstructed) and counterfactual (rerouted) least-cost maritime paths between...
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