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Hong Kong's Business Regulation in Transition
Wu, Changqi - 1997
. In this paper, we review the evolution of business regulation in Hong Kong, analyze the salient features of its scheme of … control regulation and evaluate the impact of transition from regulation to competition. To provide a sharp contrast between … the difficulties of the traditional approach to regulation and the benefits of introducing competition, we focus on the …
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Taxation by Telecommunications Regulation
Hausman, Jerry - 1997
Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary …
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Hou, Kewei - 2018
In a multiperiod investment framework, firms with high expected growth earn higher expected returns than firms with low expected growth, holding investment and expected profitability constant. This paper forms cross-sectional growth forecasts, and constructs an expected growth factor that yields...
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Liberalization in China's Key Service Sectors Following WTO Accession : Some Scenarios and Issues of Measurement
Whalley, John - 2003
This paper documents and assesses the significance of the policy changes in China that WTO accession implies in 3 key service categories (banking, insurance, and telecoms), asking whether it is likely they will really be fully implemented in their entirety as undertaken at signature in 2002....
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Differentiation Strategy and Market Deregulation : Local Telecommunication Entry in the Late 1990s
Greenstein, Shane - 2003
' incentives to differentiate their services should shape the policy debate for competitive local telecommunications …
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Finders, Keepers?
Jaakkola, Niko - 2016
Natural-resource taxation and investment exhibit cycles in a vast number of countries, driving political turmoil and power shifts. Using a rational-expectations model, we show cycles result from governments' inability to commit to future taxes and firms' inability to credibly exit a country...
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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Seven Million Latin American Workers
Brambilla, Irene - 2010
The returns to schooling and the skill premium are key parameters in various fields and policy debates, including the literatures on globalization and inequality, international migration, and technological change. This paper explores the skill premium and its correlation with exports in Latin...
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Taking Trade Policy Seriously : Export Subsidization as a Case Study in Policy Effectiveness
Rodrik, Dani - 1993
Bolivia are presented to confront usual presumptions against actual experience. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the … most uniform and non-discretionary cases (Kenya and Bolivia) were clear failures. The paradox is explained in terms of …
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Do Exchange Auctions Work? An Examination of the Bolivian Experience
Dominguez, Kathryn M. - 1991
introduction of its auction, the Bolsin, not only did the parallel market premium for dollars all but disappear in Bolivia, but the …
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