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Branch Expansion versus Digital Banking : The Dynamics of Growth and Inequality in a Spatial Equilibrium Model
Ji, Yan; Teng, Songyuan; Townsend, Robert M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Thailand between 1986-1996. The model quantifies the sources of growth and inequality over time and across space and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496136
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Uncertainty and the Disappearance of International Credit
Aizenman, Joshua - 1999
We show that increased uncertainty about the size of an emerging market's external debt has a nonlinear and potentially large adverse effect on the supply of international credit offered to them. We also show that if international creditors are first- order risk averse, attaching greater weight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471396
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Capital Flows in Asia
Ito, Takatoshi - 1999
factors to the role of capital flows in the currency crises in different countries, especially Thailand, Indonesia, and Korea …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471660
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Large Fiscal Episodes and Sustainable Development : Some International Evidence
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Nguyen, Hien Thi Kim; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Africa, and Thailand, examining the components of government expenses and tax revenues, and reporting four stylized patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510619
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Insurance and Propagation in Village Networks
Kinnan, Cynthia - 2020
In village economies, insurance networks are key to smoothing shocks, while production networks can propagate them. The interplay of these networks is crucial. We show that a significant health expenditure shock to one household propagates to other linked households via supply-chain and labor...
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Heterogeneity and Risk Sharing in Village Economies
Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2011
We measure heterogeneity in risk aversion among households in Thai villages using a full risk-sharing model and complement the results with a measure based on optimal portfolio choice. Among households with relatives living in the same village, full insurance cannot be rejected, suggesting that...
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Mixing Family With Business : A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them
Bertrand, Marianne - 2008
families behind these business groups affects the groups' organization, governance and performance. To address this question … Thailand. We find a strong positive association between family size and family involvement in the ownership and control of the … founder of the group is gone. The availability of more sons is also associated with lower firm-level performance, especially …
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Firm-Specific Information and the Efficiency of Investment
Chari, Anusha - 2006
We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period following stock market liberalizations, the growth rate of the typical firm's capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by an average of 5.4 percentage points....
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Wake Up and Smell the Ginseng : The Rise of Incremental Innovation in Low-Wage Countries
Puga, Diego - 2005
Increasingly, a small number of low-wage countries such as China and India are involved in innovation -- not `big ideas' innovation, but the constant incremental innovations needed to stay ahead in business. We provide some evidence of this new phenomenon and develop a model in which there is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467107
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Systemic Crises and Growth
Ranciere, Romain - 2005
In this paper, we document the fact that countries that have experienced occasional financial crises have, on average, grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions. We measure the incidence of crisis with the skewness of credit growth, and find that it has a robust negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467611