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effectiveness of whistleblower laws and their awareness, this study creates a unique internet-based measure of awareness about …. Internet awareness of whistleblower laws appears to be more effective at exposing corruption than the quantity and quality of …
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Emerging economies with inflation targets (IT) face a dilemma between fulflling the theoretical conditions of "strict IT", which implies a fully flexible exchange rate, or applying a "flexible IT", which entails a de facto managed floating exchange rate with forex interventions to moderate...
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The paper estimates McCallum and Taylor monetary policy reaction functions, and hybrids mixing instruments and targets from the two frameworks, for 20 emerging market economies. McCallum-Taylor specifications with an interest rate instrument and a nominal income gap target perform better than...
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This paper uses multivariate GARCH techniques to study volatility spillovers between the Chinese non-deliverable forward market and seven of its Asia-Pacific counterparts over the period January 1998 to March 2005. To account for the time-variability of conditional correlation, a dynamic...
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There have been profound changes in both political and economic institutions in China over the last twenty years …
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two emerging stock markets - Russia and China, because of their unique characteristics and performance in the past years …
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We present a new composite leading indicator of economic activity in mainland China, es-timated using a dynamic factor …
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features of China's extensive processing trade cause both the identification of imported intermediate goods, and their … intermediate goods imported into China. Vertical specialization is then estimated using two methods. The first method uses the … strong evidence of an Asian network of intermediate suppliers to China, and the two methods provide a range of estimates for …
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stability in mainland China. We examine whether excess money relative to rulebased values provides information that improves the …
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In January 2008, China adopted a new labour contract law. This new law represents the most significant reform to the … legislation on employment relations in mainland China in more than a decade. The paper provides a theoretical framework on the …
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