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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
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Monetary policies of large industrialised countries, emerging market credit cycles and feedback effects
Andreas, Hoffmann; Schnabl, Gunther - 2014
This paper explores the link between monetary policies of large industrial countries and international credit cycles. Based on an overinvestment framework, we show that in the prevailing asymmetric world monetary system, monetary policies of large centre countries can fuel credit booms in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337620
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Investors' trading behaviour and stock market volatility during crisis periods : a dual long-memory model for the Korean stock exchange
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Karanasos, Menelaos; Yfanti, … - 2019
This study examines the impact of investors' buy and sell trades on Korean stock market volatility across two crisis events, the Asian crisis of 1997 and the 2008 global financial crash. We investigate the trading behaviour of domestic vs. foreign and institutional vs. individual investors. Our...
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Secular stagnation : is immigration part of the solution?
Alves, José; Morgado, Sandro - 2022
In our article we review the secular stagnation hypothesis, firstly postulated by Hansen (1939), to describe the current macroeconomic dynamics faced by developed economies. Based in the existing literature, we elaborate on a workable definition of secular stagnation founded on four pillars:...
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Disorganization and financial collapse
Marin, Dalia; Schnitzer, Monika - 2000
Recently, Blanchard and Kremer (BK) argued that disorganization has led to the output decline in the former Soviet Union. In this paper we introduce liquidity and credit constraints into the BK model and show how these problems can alleviate the hold-up problem. We argue further that barter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781618
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The impact of the global financial crisis on business cycles in Asian emerging economies
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Korhonen, Iikka - 2009
We analyze the transmission of global financial crisis to business cycles in China and India. The pattern of business cycles in emerging Asian economies generally displays a low degree of synchronization with the OECD countries, which is consistent with the decoupling hypothesis. By contrast,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861779
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Asian crises : theory, evidence, warning-signals
Stein, Jerome L.; Lim, Guay C. - 2004
In July 1997, the economies of East Asia became embroiled in one of the worst financial crises of the postwar period …
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Global and regional financial integration in emerging Asia : evidence from stock markets
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; You, Kefei - 2017
emerging Asia there is more regional than global integration, and that the former has become even stronger in the post-2008 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654611
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Stigma? What Stigma? : a contribution to the debate on the effectiveness of IMF lending
Scheubel, Beatrice; Tafuro, Andrea; Vonessen, Benjamin - 2018
There is a perception that IMF programmes are not catalytic and instead associated with large capital outflows, higher refinancing costs for sovereigns and adverse movements in stock markets. This has led to concerns that an expectation of adverse effects of IMF programmes may deter countries...
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The collapse speed of China's exports in the 2008-2009 financial crisis
Jing, Ran - 2011
This paper studies the performance of China's exports during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at which China's exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP growth rates of importing countries play an important...
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