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Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph - 2011
Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist … introduces the chapters comprising the NBER volume Capitalizing China (Fan and Morck, eds. 2012), which examine China's high … consider policy alternatives the CCP might consider if its goal is China's elevation into the ranks of high income countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460970
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Learning the Wealth of Nations
Buera, Francisco J. - 2008
We study the evolution of market-oriented policies over time and across countries. We consider a model in which own and neighbors' past experiences influence policy choices, through their effect on policymakers' beliefs. We estimate the model using a large panel of countries. We find that there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464054
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From Centrally-Planned to Market Economies : The Road from CPE to PCPE
Calvo, Guillermo A. - 1991
This paper deals with the early stages of transformation of centrally-planned economies (CBEs) into market economies during which expectations playa key role. It focuses on the transitional phase during which the economy is not any more a CPE but has not yet become a market economy. During this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475308
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The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61
Meng, Xin - 2010
This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in …
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What is the Business of Business?
Nilsson, Andreas - 2017
This paper develops a simple framework for understanding the emergence of new organizational forms, such as socially responsible firms and social entrepreneurs, that embody the private sector's efforts to resolve problems that typically have been within the purview of government and traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455177
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Adjustment of State Owned and Foreign-Funded Enterprises in China to Economic Reforms,1980s-2007 : a logistic smooth transition regression (LSTR) approach
Aizenman, Joshua - 2009
added production function of the State Owned (SOE) and Foreign-Funded Enterprises (FFE) in China, 1980s-2007. The transition … associated with the economic reforms in China is estimated applying a curvilinear logistic function, where the speed and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463377
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Initial Public Offering and Corporate Governance in China's Transitional Economy
Hsun, Chen-Chien - 2003
that the only industries in which listed companies in China display strong performance are public utilities, transportation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469125
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The Razor's Edge : Distortions and Incremental Reform in the People's Republic of China
Young, Alwyn - 2000
forward. In this paper I illustrate this idea with a study of the People's Republic of China. Under the plan, prices were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470915
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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions
Cohen, Alma - 2018
This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453103
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China's Gradualistic Economic Approach and Financial Markets
Brunnermeier, Markus K. - 2017
China's gradualistic approach allowed the government to learn how the economy reacts to small policy changes, and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455487