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Contemporary Chinese Diasporas
Zhou, Min (ed.) - 2017
of the world to pursue economic opportunities and alternative means of livelihood. Emigration from China ebbed after … World War II, but has surged again as China implemented its open-door policy in December 1978. Since then, massive waves of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397426
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Ethnic Chinese Networks in International Trade
Rauch, James E. - 2011
Ethnic Chinese networks, as proxied by the product of ethnic Chinese population shares, are found in 1980 and 1990 to have increased bilateral trade both within Southeast Asia and for other country pairs. Their effects within Southeast Asia are much greater for differentiated than for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132798
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Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia : Identity, Ethnic Cooperation and Conflict
Landa, Janet Tai - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397327
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Troubled Banks, Impaired Foreign Direct Investment : The Role of Relative Access to Credit
Klein, Michael W. - 2001
: the continued decline in Japanese FDI during a period of stable stock prices and a rapidly appreciating yen. However, when … are able to show that unequal access to credit by Japanese firms can explain the FDI puzzle in the 1990s. We utilize a … unique data set that links individual Japanese firms engaged in FDI to their main banks. Using both bank-level and firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012788054
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Is Foreign Direct Investment a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from Japan'S FDI in the United States
Branstetter, Lee - 2021
directly test the hypothesis that FDI is a channel of knowledge spillovers for Japanese multinationals undertaking direct … investments in the United States. Using an original firm-level data set on Japanese firms' FDI and innovative activity find … evidence that FDI increases the flow of knowledge spillovers both from and to the investing Japanese firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226164
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The Credit Crunch in East Asia : What Can Bank Excess Liquid Assets Tell Us?
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2004
The paper proposes a two-step approach to assessing the extent to which the fall in credit in crisis-stricken East Asian countries was a supply- or demand-induced phenomenon. The first step is based on the estimation of a demand function for excess liquid assets by commercial banks. Such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012786267
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Lessons from the Asian Crisis
Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2021
This paper provides an asymmetric information analysis of the recent East Asian crisis. It then outlines several lessons from this crisis. First, there is a strong rationale for an international lender of last resort. Second, without appropriate conditionality for this lending, the moral hazard...
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International Capital Inflows, Domestic Financial Intermediation and Financial Crises Under Imperfect Information
Chinn, Menzie David; Kletzer, Kenneth M. - 2021
A model of financial crises in emerging markets based on problems of agency in financial intermediation is developed. This model generates dynamic relationships between foreign capital inflows, domestic investment and domestic bank debt in an endogenous growth model. As a consequence of loan...
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Before the Fall : Were East Asian Currencies Overvalued?
Chinn, Menzie David - 2021
I implement two major approaches to identifying the equilibrium exchange rate. First, the concept of purchasing power parity is tested and used to define the equilibrium real exchange rate for the Indonesian rupiah, Korean won, Malaysian ringgit, Philippine peso, Singapore dollar, Taiwanese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211646
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Is an Integrated Regional Labor Market Emergin in East and Southeast Asia?
Bloom, David E.; Noor, Waseen - 2021
We examine labor market integration in east and southeast Asia (ESEA) during the 1980s, focusing on intraregional labor mobility and on the two other main channels of integration: capital mobility and trade. We find evidence that labor market integration increased sharply among ESEA countries in...
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