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The Tyranny of Numbers : Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience
Young, Alwyn - 1994
of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Participation rates, educational levels and (with the exception of Hong …
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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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Large Devaluations and the Real Exchange Rate
Burstein, Ariel - 2004
large devaluation episodes: Argentina (2001), Brazil (1999), Korea (1997), Mexico (1994), and Thailand (1997). We conduct a …
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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and...
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Accounting for Chinese Trade : Some National and Regional Considerations
Fung, K.C. - 1996
subcontracting. `Illegal' trade between China and Taiwan has been induced by Taiwan's `no direct trade' policy. Illegal trade such as …
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Pricing Currency Risk : Facts and Puzzles from Currency Boards
Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2002
Hard pegs, such as currency boards, intend to reduce or even eliminate currency risk. This paper investigates the patterns and determinants of the currency risk premium in two currency boards -- Argentina and Hong Kong. Despite the presumed rigidity of currency boards, the currency premium is...
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High Performing Asian Economies
Fogel, Robert W. - 2004
To American and European economists in 1945, the countries of Asia were unpromising candidates for high economic growth. In 1950 even the most prosperous of these countries had a per capita income less than 25 percent of that of the United States. Between the mid-1960s and the end of the...
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Buyer Investment, Product Variety, and Intrafirm Trade
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005
equilibria is consistent with the observation that some similar economies, such as Taiwan and South Korea, differ substantially …
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Productivity, Output, and Failure : A Comparison of Taiwanese and Korean Manufacturers
Aw, Bee Yan - 2002
that despite many outward similarities, two of the most successful Southeast Asian economies, Taiwan and South Korea … markets. In this paper we use micro panel data for producers in seven two-digit manufacturing industries in South Korea and … Taiwan and identify a number of systematic differences in industry structure between the two countries. Our empirical …
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Patent Citations and International Knowledge Flow : The Cases of Korea and Taiwan
Hu, Albert G.Z. - 2001
This paper examines patterns of knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan using patent citations as an … knowledge diffusion over time, we have found that knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan exhibits quite …
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