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By comparing the development of landownership in China and England, this paper explores what were behind their … early China has established a unique economic system that allowed free alienation of land, but it has been trying to check … strengthening and expanding of patriarchal clan system. The different development paths of China and England show the different …
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Imperial China used an empire-wide system of examinations to select civil servants. Using a semiparametric matching …
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The term financial crisis refers to the loss of confidence in a country's currency or other financial assets causing international investors to withdraw their funds from the country. The financial crisis and associated recession originated in the US in early 2008 and then spread to Europe has by...
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This study examines the dynamics of the relationship between institutional investment flow and stock returns for India using daily data over the period of 1st Jan 2002 to 31st July 2012. The analysis has been conducted in a two and three factors vector autoregression framework in which we...
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analyses which include a focus on China, Japan, Brazil, and South Africa, this paper not only highlights why there is need for … a re-think of the use of fair values as the primary basis for the implementation of IFRS, but also accentuates the links … particular, the Basel III leverage ratios in jurisdictions such as China. Ultimately the paper also aims to investigate whether …
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successful in substituting its fiscal and legal institutions for those of the medieval seigneurial regime within an area of the … themselves with national, as opposed to local, institutions. We also show that regions inside the CGF that affiliated with …
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I maintain that fatalistic tendencies are the output of the interaction between cultural factors (and in particular of religious beliefs) and historical Institutional experience. Using WVS data this idea has been tested against two well known sociological theories on the origin of fatalism:...
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Annotated remarks made at the 50th Anniversary Conference “Fortalecimiento institucional de los bancos centrales y efectividad de la política monetaria”, of the Central Bank of Nicaragua, February 2010. The paper lays out the importance of institutional strenthening (governance) as an...
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institutions and ongoing cooperation and dialogue among relevant authorities. …
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. Finally, the 2007 survey on the money transfer activities (hawalas) shows that these institutions have a significant impact on …
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