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Transformación económica desde la óptica fiscal. ¿Puede existir un equilibrio entre el corto, mediano y largo plazo para fomentar el desarrollo?

Valdivia, Daney; Loayza, Lilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper computes the fiscal stance in a small open economy and asses its position to relevant macroeconomic variables in order to protect the macroeconomic stability and promote development. Since 2006 change in income and tax structure shifts the implementation of fiscal policy, increasing...

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Infrastructures and economic performance: a critical comparison across four approaches

Torrisi, Gianpiero - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The paper reviews studies analysing the relationship between infrastructures and economic performance. Four different approaches are separately considered along an ideal path from theory-based to data-oriented models: the production function approach, the cost function approach, growth-models,...

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Measuring the maritime potential of nations. The CenPRIS ocean index, phase one (ASEAN)

Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper describes the methods used to construct an index to measure the maritime potential of nations. This prototype uses a limited number of variables to measure (a) the locational advantage of having a long coastline in comparison to the landmass (Maritime Potential Index MPI) , (b) the...

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Public administration role in infrastructure development

Grigorescu, Adriana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The infrastructure (transport) is essential for the economic development of a region. If we are taking into consideration the tourism industry and other tourist activities, the importance of the infrastructure is higher, due to the fact that the attractiveness is increased by the comfort and the...

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Agency Conflicts, Expropriation and Firm Value: Evidence from Securities-Market Regulation in China

Henk, Berkman; Rebel, Cole; Fu, Lawrence - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

In this study, we examine the wealth effects of regulatory changes intended to improve corporate governance by protecting minority shareholders from expropriation by controlling shareholders. Using data from publicly traded Chinese firms, we find that these new regulations significantly...

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China's Regional Convergence in Panels with Multiple Structural Breaks

Matsuki, Takashi; Usami, Ryoichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This study investigates the existence of regional convergence of per capita outputs in China from 1952 …’s provincial real per capita outputs to examine the regional convergence in China. To obtain the p-values of unit root tests for … Carlo simulation. The results obtained from this study reveal that the convergence of the provincial per capita outputs …

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Political connections and minority-shareholder protection: Evidence from securities-market regulation in China

Berkman, Henk; Cole, Rebel; Fu, Lawrence - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We examine the wealth effects of three regulatory changes designed to improve minorityshareholder protection in the Chinese stock markets. Using the value of a firm’s related-party transactions as an inverse proxy for the quality of corporate governance, we find that firms with weaker...

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The Long-Term Effects of Protestant Activities in China

Chen, Yuyu; Wang, Hui; Yan, Se - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Does culture, and in particular religion, exert an independent causal effect on long-term economic growth, or do culture and religion merely reflect the latter? We explore this issue by studying the case of Protestantism in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....

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Economic growth dynamics across countries.

Ewa, Lechman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Economic growth is one of the most important issues discussed worldwide. Its dynamics over time seem to be crucial from the perspective of the ability of poor countries to catch up with highly developed economies. As can be easily noticed in world statistics, both GDP per capita and GDP growth...

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Rebalancing China’s economic growth: some insights from Japan’s experience

Muto, Ichiro; Fukumoto, Tomoyuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

One of the greatest challenges China faces is how to reshape its heavily investment-driven mode of economic growth. By investigating how the rebalancing of Japan’s economic growth mode was realized in the 1970s, we indicate that it is essential in the rebalancing to correct the distortions in...

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