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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance

Suesse, Marvin - 2019

What determines the development of rural financial markets? Starting from a simple theoretical framework, we derive the factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for these determinants using the expansion of credit...

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What Stayers Do? Capital Endowments and On-Farm Transitions in Rural China

Wang, Hao - 2019

While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to account for a large share of employment. We study the...

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Migration and Cultural Change

Rapoport, Hillel - 2020

We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...

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Economic-Social Interaction in China

Lindbeck, Assar - 2021

This paper analyzes economic-social interaction in China in connection with the country's change of economic system. I define an economic system in terms of a multidimensional vector of broad institutional characteristics, and I emphasize that important features of the social development are...

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Tax Credits, Income Support and Partnership Decisions

Anderberg, Dan - 2021

This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using recent policy reforms to identify the response rate I find that a GBP100/week welfare benefit "partnership penalty" reduces the probability of a woman having a partner by seven...

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Country-Specific Oil Supply Shocks and the Global Economy: A Counterfactual Analysis

Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2015

This paper investigates the global macroeconomic consequences of country-specific oil-supply shocks. Our contribution is both theoretical and empirical. On the theoretical side, we develop a model for the global oil market and integrate this within a compact quarterly model of the global economy...

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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior: Theory and Evidence from Iran

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; … - 2015

This study examines how the quality of political institutions affects the distribution of the government budget in Iran …

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Black market and official exchange rates: long-run equilibrium and short-run dynamics

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Cerrato, Mario - 2006

six emerging economies (Iran, India, Indonesia, Korea, Pakistan, and Thailand). First, it applies both time series …

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Illegal trade in the Iranian economy: evidence from a structural model

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2008

index of smuggling in Iran from 1970 to 2002. The Multiple Indicators - Multiple Causes (MIMIC) econometric modelling is … incentives for illegal trade. More trade openness accompanies more illegal trade for the case of Iran. On average, the relative … size of smuggling is about 13% of the total trade in Iran. The absolute amount of smuggling per year is about USD3 billion. …

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Oil exports and the Iranian economy

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, … - 2009

effects of oil exports are taken into account, the estimates support output growth convergence between Iran and the rest of …, which could be partly due to the relatively underdeveloped nature of Iran’s financial markets. …

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