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Internal finance and growth: microeconometric evidence on Chinese firms

Guariglia, Alessandra; Liu, Xiaoxuan; Song, Lina - 2008

Does the availability of internal finance constrain firm growth? Or does it foster it? To answer these questions, we use a panel of 407,096 Chinese firms over the period 2000-2005. We estimate dynamic assets growth equations augmented with cash flow, and find that the growth of state owned...

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Internal Finance and Growth: Microeconometric Evidence on Chinese Firms

Guariglia, Alessandra; Liu, Xiaoxuan; Song, Lina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Does the availability of internal finance constrain firm growth? Or does it foster it? To answer these questions, we use a panel of 407,096 Chinese firms over the period 2000−2005. We estimate dynamic assets growth equations augmented with cash flow, and find that the growth of state owned...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703564

Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market

Heshmati, Almas - 2012

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...

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Interpreting prediction market prices as probabilities

Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - 2006

While most empirical analysis of prediction markets treats prices of binary options as predictions of the probability of future events, Manski (2004) has recently argued that there is little existing theory supporting this practice. We provide relevant analytic foundations, describing sufficient...

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The Economic Impact of Non-communicable Disease in China and India: Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

Bloom, David E.; Cafiero, Elizabeth T.; McGovern, Mark E.; … - 2013

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …

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Financing Constraints and Employers' Investment in Training

Brunello, Giorgio; Gereben, Áron; Weiss, Christoph T.; … - 2020

Using a representative sample of European firms, we study whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decision to invest in employee training. We combine survey data on investment activities with administrative data on financial statements to develop an index of financing...

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Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Will it Last? An Assessment of the 2001 German Pension Reform

Bonin, Holger - 2001

In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension accounts. The paper critically reviews the reform decisions and evaluates their long-term viability. It is shown that the adjustment of the Public Pension Scheme misses the...

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Prediction markets in theory and practice

Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - 2006

Prediction Markets, sometimes referred to as information markets, idea futures or event futures, are markets where participants trade contracts whose payoffs are tied to a future event, thereby yielding prices that can be interpreted as market-aggregated forecasts. This article summarizes the...

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Macroeconomic derivatives: an initial analysis of market-based macro forecasts, uncertainty and risk

Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Wolfers, Justin - 2005

In September 2002, a new market in Economic Derivatives was launched allowing traders to take positions on future values of several macroeconomic data releases. We provide an initial analysis of the prices of these options. We find that market-based measures of expectations are similar to...

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