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Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?
Kolko, Jed - 2014
We study how the employment effects of enterprise zones vary with their location, implementation, and administration, based on evidence from California. We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods, coupled with a survey of enterprise zone administrators. Overall, the...
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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 2014
Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...
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Rebuilding the infrastructure of market economy : enterprise reforms and the emerging property rights regime
Zhang Huiming - In: China report : a journal of East Asian studies 40 (2004) 4, pp. 419-429
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The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61
Meng, Xin - 2010
This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in …
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Monetary Policy Spillovers and the Trilemma in the New Normal : Periphery Country Sensitivity to Core Country Conditions
Aizenman, Joshua - 2015
) can be affected by the movements in the center economies - the U.S., Japan, the Eurozone, and China. We apply a two …
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Vertical Integration, Institutional Determinants and Impact : Evidence from China
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2013
political rent seeking is substantial, firm value might rise as economy performance decays. China offers a suitable background …
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Institutions and Foreign Investment : China Versus the World
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2013
Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …
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Contractual Versus Non-Contractual Trade : The Role of Institutions in China
Feenstra, Robert C.; Hong, Chang; Ma, Hong; Spencer, … - 2021
cross-provincial variation in institutional quality in China, and export data that distinguishes between foreign and …
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Fragmentation and Trade in Value Added Over Four Decades
Johnson, Robert C. - 2012
We combine data on trade, production, and input use to compute the value added content of trade for forty-two countries from 1970 to 2009. For the world, the ratio of value added to gross trade falls by ten to fifteen percentage points, with two-thirds of this decline in the last two decades....
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Organizing the Global Value Chain
Antras, Pol - 2012
We develop a property-rights model of the firm in which production entails a continuum of uniquely sequenced stages. In each stage, a final-good producer contracts with a distinct supplier for the procurement of a customized stage-specific component. Our model yields a sharp characterization for...
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