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Trade, Poverty and the Lagging Regions of South Asia

Krishna, Pravin - 2010

This chapter studies the differential effects that trade openness may have on leading and lagging regions within a country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is smaller in lagging states. The expected transmission...

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Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?

Arunachalam, Raj - 2008

This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of theoretical papers that have attempted to explain...

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Daily Cross-Border Equity Flows : Pushed or Pulled?

Griffin, John M. - 2002

In a model that is consistent with the existence of a home bias and with foreign investors that are less informed than domestic investors, we show that unexpectedly high worldwide returns lead to net equity inflows into small countries. In addition, a small country experiences net equity inflows...

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The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies : A Structural Change Perspective

Diao, Xinshen - 2017

Growth has accelerated in a wide range of developing countries over the last couple of decades, resulting in an extraordinary period of convergence with the advanced economies. We analyze this experience from the lens of structural change - the reallocation of labor from low- to...

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Missing Unmarried Women

Anderson, Siwan - 2015

That unmarried individuals die at a faster rate than married individuals at all ages is well documented. Unmarried women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is more extreme for women in these regions compared to...

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Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition : Evidence from South Asia

Vogl, Tom - 2012

Using data from South Asia, this paper examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to allow sufficient time to marry off her younger...

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Does Diversification Destroy Value? Evidence From Industry Shocks

Lamont, Owen - 2000

Does corporate diversification reduce shareholder value? Since firms endogenously choose to diversify, exogenous … variation in diversification is necessary in order to draw inferences about the causal effect. We examine changes in the within … investment, are negatively related to firm value. Thus diversification destroys value, consistent with the inefficient internal …

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The Diversification Discount : Cash Flows vs. Returns

Lamont, Owen - 1999

Diversified firms have different values than comparable portfolios of single-segment firms. These value differences must be due to differences in either future cash flows or future returns. Expected security returns on diversified firms vary systematically with relative value. Discount firms...

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Corporate Focusing and Internal Capital Markets

Schlingemann, Frederik P. - 1999

A sample of firms that focus by divesting at least one segment allows us to investigate the characteristics of segments divested as well as the nature of focusing firms. We find that firms are more likely to divest segments unrelated to the core activities of the firm and that the probability...

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Global Diversification, Growth and Welfare with Imperfectly Integrated Markets for Goods

Dumas, Bernard - 1999

In this article, we examine the effect of the imperfect mobility of goods on international risk sharing and, through that, on the investment in risky projects, welfare and growth. We find that the welfare gain of financial market openness is not monotonic with respect to investors' risk aversion...

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