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China's financial system has been integral to its spectacular economic growth over the past 40 years. We review the recent literature on China's financial system and its connections to the Chinese economy based on the categories of Aggregate Financing to the Real Economy (AFRE), a broad measure...
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In the first part of this paper we argue that three reforms must be implemented if privatization is to increase … small window of opportunity? Either they privatize hastily today, or not at all. Should they go ahead with privatization and … clear cut. Privatization without prior implementation of the three reforms mentioned above will simply replace government …
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investigate the demand for the rule of law in post-Communist economies after privatization under the assumption that theft is …
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investigate the demand for the rule of law in post-Communist economies after privatization under the assumption that theft is …
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When Russia launched mass privatization, it was widely believed that it would create a powerful constituency for the … show that beneficiaries of mass privatization may fail to demand the rule of law even if it is the Pareto efficient rule of …
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Does finance follow the real economy, or the other way around? This paper unites the two competing schools of thought in a general equilibrium framework. Our key result is that there are threshold effects defined by a set of deep institutional parameters (cost of financial intermediation,...
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We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and...
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the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more … endogeneity, confused issues of speed and level of privatization, and did not face up to the problems of multicollinearity. Our … results suggest that, contrary to the earlier literature, the speed of privatization is negatively associated with growth, but …
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provisioning rules from the perspective of portfolio theory …
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