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The impact of finance on the performance of Thai manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises
Amornkitvikai, Yot; Harvie, Charles - 2016
This study sheds light on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) financing and its performance in Thailand. It elaborates on the key sources of finance existing for Thai manufacturing SMEs and their importance for SME performance as measured by technical efficiency, export performance, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653778
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Trade facilitation and global value chains in a post-pandemic world
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2023
The objective of this paper is twofold. First, it examines the effects of the implementation of trade facilitation (TF) measures on international trade flows and on participation in global value chains (GVCs). Second, it provides policy recommendations for developing Asia and the Pacific derived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540474
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Developing Asian local currency bond markets: Why and how?
Spiegel, Mark M. - 2009
This paper examines the motivation for, and the success of, regional efforts in Asia to promote local currency bond markets. The analysis demonstrates that Asian local currency bond markets made substantial gains as a region going into the current global financial crisis. However, we argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279833
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Developing Asian Local Currency Bond Markets : Why and How?
Spiegel, Mark M. - 2010
This paper examines the motivation for, and the success of, regional efforts in Asia to promote local currency bond markets. The analysis demonstrates that Asian local currency bond markets made substantial gains as a region going into the current global financial crisis. However, we argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142018
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Exchange rates, international trade, and growth: Re-evaluation of undervaluation
Sokolova, Maria V. - 2017
This paper shows that regional trade integration shifts the burden of the exchange rate adjustment towards the less integrated trading partners. Thus, they bear the cost of trade balance expansion, while competitive exchange rate moves vis-a-vis RTA trading partners result in no expansion or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688708
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Why trade finance gaps persist: Does it matter for trade and development?
Auboin, Marc; DiCaprio, Alisa - 2017
Trade finance shortfalls now appear regularly. Does this matter for trade expansion and economic development in developing countries? Global trade finance has resumed following the 2009 global financial crisis. However, the pattern of recovery has been uneven across countries and categories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688725
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Does corruption affect access to bank credit for micro and small businesses? Evidence from European MSMEs
Galli, Emma; Mascia, Danilo V.; Rossi, Stefania P. S. - 2017
In this paper, we aim to assess how a specific socio-institutional environment, identified according to the level of corruption, may affect the access to credit for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Using a sample of 68,115 observations - drawn from the ECB-SAFE survey -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852986
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Urbanization and risk preference in the People's Republic of China: A decomposition of the self-selection and assimilation effects
Shi, Xiaojun; Yan, Zhu - 2017
This paper argues that urbanization reshapes individual's risk preference by exerting self-selection and assimilation effects. Taking advantage of the unique hukou system in the People's Republic of China, we initiate a quasi-experiment method to elicit the two effects, employing the 2013-wave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688736
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Globalization and the labor share in national income
Doan, Ha Thi Thanh; Wan, Guanghua - 2017
Contradicting the conventional wisdom of constant factor shares, the portion of national income accruing to labor has been trending downward in the last three decades. This decline must have contributed to rising inequality as labor income is more evenly distributed than capital income. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688662
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Global value chains and the missing exports of the United States
Xing, Yuqing - 2017
statistics greatly underestimate US exports and substantially exaggerate its trade deficit. In this paper, we use the case of … Apple intellectual property sold to foreign consumers was counted as part of US exports, total US exports in 2015 would … here would raise US exports to the PRC and Japan in 2015 by 16.6% and 8.6% respectively, and lower its trade deficit with …
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