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Coe, David T. - 2008

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DATA -- III. ECONOMETRIC PRELIMINARIES -- IV. "INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS" REVISITED -- V. INSTITUTIONS AND INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A: ALTERNATIVE SPECIFICATION -- APPENDIX B: DATA SOURCES AND DEFINITIONS --...

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Institutional Factors and Financial Sector Development

Toroyan, Hovhannes - 2009

The paper assesses the effects of certain institutional factors on financial sector development in Sub- Saharan Africa (SSA). Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is applied to determine the extent to which these institutions affect the financial sector, and to suggest which institutions play a more...

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Institutional Inertia

Valderrama, Laura - 2009

We study the relative efficiency of outside-owned versus employee-owned firms and analyze implications for institutional change in a context of technological innovation. When decisions are made through majority voting, the vote on technology choice is used to influence the later vote on the...

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Institutional Quality, Knightian Uncertainty, and Insurability : A Cross-Country Analysis

Erbas, S. Nuri - 2006

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Environmental Tax Reform : Principles from Theory and Practice to Date

Parry, Ian W.H - 2012

energy/environmental tax systems in Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and Vietnam suggests that there is substantial scope for policy … Reforms: The Case of Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and Vietnam -- A. Comparing Energy Systems in Sweden, Germany, Turkey, and … Vietnam -- B. Externality Assessment -- C. Evaluating Environmental Tax Systems -- D. Conclusion -- Figures -- 1. Revenues …

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The role of risk and information for international capital flows : new evidence from the SDDS

Hashimoto, Yūko; Wacker, Konstantin - 2012

In this paper we investigate whether better information about the macroeconomic environment of an economy has a positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of our study is to explicitly quantify information asymmetries by compliance...

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The Long-Run Trend of Residential Investment in China

Ding, Ding - 2018

In this paper we analyze the fundamental drivers of China's residential investment as a share of its GDP. Our analysis indicates that the economic structural changes that led to rebalancing toward consumption were the key driver of the rising residential investment to GDP ratio in China. We...

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Rising Income Inequality : Technology, or Trade and Financial Globalization?

Papageorgiou, Chris - 2008

We examine the relationship between trade and financial globalization and the rise in inequality in most countries in recent decades. We find technological progress as having a greater impact than globalization on inequality. The limited overall impact of globalization reflects two offsetting...

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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?

Prasad, Eswar - 2008

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various measures of productivity and financial openness for a large sample of countries. We find that de jure capital...

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Valuation of Unlisted Direct Investment Equity

Elkjaer, Thomas - 2009

This paper analyzes the seven valuation methods for unlisted direct investment equity included in the recently adopted IMF Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition (BPM6). Based on publicly available Danish data, we test the three methods that are generally...

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