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Did Output Recover From the Asian Crisis?
Cerra, Valerie - 2003
This paper investigates the extent to which output has recovered from the Asian crisis. A regime-switching approach that introduces two state variables is used to decompose recessions in a set of six Asian countries into permanent and transitory components. While growth recovered fairly quickly...
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Demographic Change in Asia : The Impacton Optimal National Saving, Investment, and the Current Account
McDonald, Ian - 2000
economies—Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines—for the period 1997–2050 using a simulation approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399958
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Why U.S. immigration matters for the global advancement of science
Agarwal, Ruchir; Ganguli, Ina; Gaulé, Patrick; Smith, Geoff - 2021
This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge network-representing 20-33% of the frontier knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518315
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Job polarization and the declining fortunes of the young : evidence from the United Kingdom
Dabla-Norris, Era; Pizzinelli, Carlo; Rappaport, Jay - 2019
This paper uses a life-cycle framework to document new stylized facts about the nexus between job polarization and earnings inequality. Using quarterly labor force data for the UK over the period 2000-2018, we find clear life-cycle profiles in the probability of being employed within each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112127
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Invisible geniuses : could the knowledge frontier advance faster?
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2018
The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we document that individuals who demonstrate exceptional talent in their teenage years have an...
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Exchange rate pass-through over the business cycle in Singapore
Chew, Joey; Ouliaris, Sam; Tan, Siang Meng - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424792
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Singapore's export elasticities : a disaggregated look into the role of global value chains and economic complexity
Arbatli, Elif; Hong, Gee Hee - 2016
Singapore is one of the world's most open economies, with the size of its trade reaching about 350 percent of its GDP …. With the rise of highly diversified cross-border production networks, Singapore has come to play an integral role in the …, using disaggregate industry/product level trade data, we revisit Singapore's export elasticities and find that growing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445351
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Price and wage flexibility in Hong Kong SAR
Guo, Si - 2017
with the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore by examining the three commonly used macroeconomic relationships …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716450
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Cyber risk surveillance : a case study of Singapore
Goh, Joseph; Kang, Heedon; Koh, Zhi Xing; Lim, Jin Way; … - 2020
illustrates these techniques by applying them to Singapore. As an advanced economy with a complex financial system and rapid … adoption of fintech, Singapore serves as a good case study. We place our results in the context of recent cybersecurity …
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Why complementarity matters for stability : Hong Kong SAR and Singapore as Asian financial centers
Le Leslé, Vanessa; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Kim, Minsuk; … - 2014
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