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Economic Backwardness and Catching Up : Brazilian Agriculture, 1964–2014
Alston, Lee J. - 2016
country to country depending on which perquisites were present or absent. In the past twenty years, Brazilian agriculture … is in the worlds' top five producers of coffee, soybeans, oranges, beef and corn. Yet, some segments of agriculture lag …
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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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