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The East Asian miracle was real. Prior to the 1997 economic and currency crises, Asian NICs Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan achieved remarkable annual GDP growth. In these countries the overall economic performance was significantly determined by the industrial development triggered by...
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distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: (a) financial … financial integration predict better growth prospects; (c) both advances in financial integration and globalization are … financial integration and globalization indeed foster countries' growth, and there appears to be no trade-off between these …
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Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more up-to-date. However, for many emerging and developing countries there is a lack of such surveys. This gap can, at least partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)....
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Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...
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This paper employs a price-based measure of integration, namely stock return differentials between ten emerging Asian economies and the US (as an indicator of global integration), as well as Japan and the Asian region (as two alternative indicators of regional integration), to test for mean...
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We analyze the transmission of global financial crisis to business cycles in China and India. The pattern of business …
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a leading emerging market, namely China, using difference-in-differences and GARCH approaches. Before the crisis China …
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We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global marketplace. We match Chinese customs data to US patent records, and leverage the quasi-random assignment of USPTO patent examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on...
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relationship between globalization and inequality in the transition countries including China and most countries of Middle and …This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the … period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link …
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