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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide
Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219076
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Spatial Differentiation and Market Power in Input Procurement : Evidence from a Structural Model of the Corn Market
Jung, Jinho - 2020
We estimate the cost of transporting corn and the resulting degree of spatial differentiation among downstream firms that buy corn from upstream farmers and examine whether such differentiation softens competition enabling buyers to exert market power (defined as the ability to pay a price for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841735
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Confucius Institute, Belt and Road Initiative, and Internationalization
Wang, Hao - 2020
In this paper, we study the role of Confucius Institute in supporting internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Employing a panel dataset containing 66 Belt-Road countries and 75 non Belt-Road countries from 2006 to 2017, we find that the Confucius Institute has had a positive effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826003
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Measuring the integration of staple food markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Heterogeneous infrastructure and cross border trade in the East African community
Ihle, Rico; von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan; Zorya, Sergiy - 2011
This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274732
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Bringing the Copenhagen global climate change negotiations to conclusion
Whalley, John; Walsh, Sean - 2008
(China, India, Russia, Brazil) on the other. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264483
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China's current account and exchange rate
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie D.; Fujii, Eiji - 2009
predicted by estimates based upon a cross-country sample, when using the 2006 vintage of the World Development Indicators. The … capital stock is accounted for. Thus, the China-US trade balance should respond to real exchange rate and relative income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264589
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The empirics of China's outward direct investment
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Qian, Xingwang - 2009
We investigate the empirical determinants of China's outward direct investment (ODI). It is found that China … developed and developing countries, there is evidence that a) both market seeking and resources seeking motives drive China …'s ODI, b) the Chinese exports to developing countries induce China's ODI, c) China's international reserves promote its ODI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264615
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Foreign direct investment and regional inequality: A panel data analysis
Lessmann, Christian - 2012
Chinese case is analyzed as an introductory example. FDI has increased regional inequalities in China after the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291489
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China's exchange rate impasse and the weak U.S. dollar
McKinnon, Ronald; Schnabl, Gunther - 2008
Since 2004, China has been backed into a situation where the renminbi is expected to go ever higher against the dollar ….S. dollar, the resulting monetary explosion in China contributes to the worldwide increase in primary commodity priceswith …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275871
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Spatial exporters
Defever, Fabrice; Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2011
In this paper, we provide evidence that expanding firms tend to serve new markets which are geographically close and culturally related to their prior export destinations. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a Chinese firm-level data set. To ensure an exogenous set of potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280629