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Emerging market corporate leverage and global financial conditions
Alter, Adrian; Elekdaǧ, Selim Ali - 2016
Corporate debt in emerging markets has risen significantly in recent years amid accommodative global financial conditions. This paper studies the relationship of leverage growth in emerging market (EM) firms to U.S. monetary conditions, and more broadly, to global financial conditions. We find...
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Risk and the Corporate Structure of Banks
International Monetary Fund - 2010
We identify different sources of risk as important determinants of banks'' corporate structures when expanding into new markets. Subsidiary-based corporate structures benefit from greater protection against economic risk because of affiliate-level limited liability, but are more exposed to the...
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Make in India : which exports can drive the next wave of growth?
Anand, Rahul; Kochhar, Kalpana; Mishra, Saurabh - 2015
Structural transformation depends not only on how much countries export but also on what they export and with whom they trade. This paper breaks new ground in analyzing India's exports by the technological content, quality, sophistication, and complexity of the export basket. We identify five...
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Bank of Japan’s quantitative and credit easing : are they now more effective?
Berkmen, S. Pelin - 2012
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The impact of fiscal consolidation and structural reforms on growth in Japan
Berkmen, S. Pelin - 2011
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To fire or to hoard? : explaining Japan’s labor market response in the Great Recession
Steinberg, Chad Bennett; Nakane, Masato - 2011
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How inclusive is abenomics?
Aoyagi, Chie; Ganelli, Giovanni; Murayama, Kentaro - 2015
We assess the ongoing reform efforts in Japan in terms of inclusive growth. We use prefectural level panel data to … and policy variables. Our analysis suggests that achieving the Bank of Japan's 2 percent inflation target has a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281935
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What can boost female labor force participation in Asia?
Kinoshita, Yuko; Guo, Fang - 2015
Both Japan and Korea are trying to boost female labor force participation (FLFP) as they face the challenges of a … towards non-regular employment despite women's high education levels. This paper empirically examines what helps Japan and … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …
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Production offshoring and investment by Japanese firms
Kang, Joong Shik; Piao, Shi - 2015
We trace Japanese corporate investment across different types of firms over the past decades and estimate the main determinants of investment. We find that there are differences in investment behavior between firms expanding abroad and those operating mainly in domestic markets. On the back of a...
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Portfolio rebalancing in Japan : constraints and implications for quantitative easing
Arslanalp, Serkan; Botman, Dennis P. J. - 2015
Portfolio rebalancing is a key transmission channel of quantitative easing in Japan. We construct a realistic …
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