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On the Exposure of the BRIC Countries to Global Economic Shocks
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2017
China) countries. The results reveal a strong impact of international variables on GDP growth. In contrast to the other … countries, China plays a crucial role in determining global trade and oil prices. Hence, the change in the Chinese growth …
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China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … to Latin America and the rest of emerging Asia (excluding China and India) GDP has not undergone any significant change …
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What Explains the Decline in Wage Mobility in the German Low-Wage Sector?
Aretz, Bodo - 2012
In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004. Using German individual register data, we document a clear upward trend in the persistence of low-wage employment for both men and women. Next to compositional shifts of the...
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Does Corporate Governance Reform Necessarily Boost Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from Russia
Kuznecovs, Mihails - 2012
This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106948
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Do Middle Classes Bring Institutional Reforms?
Loayza, Norman - 2012
We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108216
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Culture and Institutions
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2015
A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific aspect of the relevance of culture: its relationship to institutions. We review work with a theoretical, empirical,...
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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps : An International Study
Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2021
Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and the general absence of...
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The Age of Mass Migration : Economic and Institutional Determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - 2021
We study the determinants of 19th century mass migration with special attention to the role of institutional factors beside standard economic fundamentals. We find that economic forces associated with income and demographic differentials had a major role in the determination of this historical...
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Rhineland Exit?
Bovenberg, A. Lans; Teulings, Coen - 2021
We argue in favour of the shareholder model of the firm for three main reasons. First, serving multiple stakeholders leads to ill-defined property rights. What sounds like a fair compromise between stakeholders can easily evolve in a permanent struggle between the stakeholders about the ultimate...
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Health and Well-Being in the Crisis
Askitas, Nikos - 2011
The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...
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