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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in Gdp/Capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization

Wang, Jing - 2012

/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …

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Big BRICS, Weak Foundations : The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

Chaudhary, Latika - 2014

developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50 percent of …

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Options-Pricing Formula with Disaster Risk

Barro, Robert J. - 2016

A new options-pricing formula applies to far-out-of-the money put options on the overall stock market when disaster risk is the dominant force, the size distribution of disasters follows a power law, and the economy has a representative agent with Epstein-Zin utility. In the applicable region,...

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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

McMillan, Margaret - 2017

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all …

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CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

Bandiera, Oriana - 2017

We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary data through an unsupervised machine learning algorithm. The algorithm uncovers two distinct behavioral types: “leaders” and “managers”. Leaders focus on multi-function, high-level meetings, while managers...

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Optimal Currency Shares in International Reserves : The Impact of the Euro and the Prospects for the Dollar

Papaioannou, Elias - 2010

market countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), adding constraints that reflect a central bank%u2019s desire to hold a …

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The Runner-Up Effect

Anagol, Santosh - 2014

Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than close third-place candidates to run in, and win, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election...

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Does Management Matter in Schools

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016

American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … of the spatial equilibrium hypothesis, the central organizing idea of urban economics, are not rejected. The India data …

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Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare

Bloom, Nicholas - 2017

We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have...

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