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Globalization and social change : gender-specific effects of trade liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Pieters, Janneke; Sparrow, Robert - 2017
We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work participation increased in relative terms in regions that were more exposed to input tariff reductions,...
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India's approach to capital account liberalization
Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2009
financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated path to capital account opening, which has …In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on … the key challenge now facing India's policymakers on this front. -- India ; international financial integration ; capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794018
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Financial globalization and economic policies
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Rogoff, Kenneth S.; … - 2009
process of financial globalization. Our central findings indicate that policies promoting financial sector development …, institutional quality and trade openness appear to help developing countries derive the benefits of globalization. Similarly, sound … unavoidable tensions inherent in evaluating the risks and benefits associated with financial globalization. In light of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003816538
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Structural reform in Germany
Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2016
full-day child care and full-day schooling, and iii) the further deregulation of the professional service sector. The … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany. Policy reforms i) and ii …
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Reform redux : measurement, determinants and reversals
Campos, Nauro (contributor); Horváth, Roman (contributor) - 2006
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310965
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Financial liberalization and democracy : the role of reform reversals
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio - 2009
The relationship between economic and political liberalization has received a great deal of attention lately, yet the possibility of a nonlinear relationship and the role of reversals remain largely neglected. Focusing on democratization and financial reform, this paper offers evidence for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879372
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Financial liberalization and the brain drain : a panel data analysis
Mitra, Aniruddha; Bang, James T.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2011
This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an exploratory factor analysis, we are able to distinguish between two dimensions of financial...
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Financial liberalization and the relationship-specificity of exports
Defever, Fabrice; Südekum, Jens - 2013
We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations in the period 1980-1997 on sectoral export performance across 91 countries. The increased availability of external finance has boosted trade of industries that intensively use relationship-specific inputs, and lowered exports of...
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Foreign direct investment and structural reforms : evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
Campos, Nauro (contributor); Kinoshita, Yuko (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656909
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Investment liberalisation, technology take-off and export market entry : does foreign ownership structure matter?
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2015
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory export and technology transfer requirements imposed on foreign firms have been lifted in a number...
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