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cross-country survey on people's opinions on employment protection legislation-an area where reform has proven to be … personal pay-offs. A randomized information treatment confirms that beliefs explain views about reform, but beliefs can change …
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Structural conditionality of IMF-supported programs is designed to support structural reforms by countries borrowing from the IMF. Taking stock of program conditions and their implementation, this paper finds that conditionality focuses on fiscal, monetary and financial issues-areas where IMF...
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a methodology that accounts for positive spillovers between the structural reform areas, we estimate that even under the …
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designing, and gaining public support for, subsidy reform. This paper updates evidence for developing countries on the magnitude … of the welfare impact of subsidy reform and its distribution across income groups, incorporating more recent studies and … subsidy reform for countries where the data necessary for such an analysis is not available …
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This paper examines whether the rapid growing firm patenting activity in China is associated with real economic outcome by building a unique dataset uniting detailed firm balance sheet information with firm patent data for the period of 1998-2007. We find strong evidence that within-firm...
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