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The Relationship between Exchange Rates and Inflation Targeting Revisited

Edwards, Sebastian - 2021

This paper deals with the relationship between inflation targeting and exchange rates. I address three specific issues: first, I analyze the effectiveness of nominal exchange rates as shock absorbers in countries with inflation targeting. This issue is closely related to the magnitude of the...

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De Facto and De Jure Property Rights : Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers

Alston, Lee J. - 2010

of Australia, the U.S. and Brazil. We are interested in examining the emergence, sustainability, and collapse of commons … relatively peaceful where claimants have reasons to organize collectively (Australia and the U.S.). The settlement process will …

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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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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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Taking Trade Policy Seriously : Export Subsidization as a Case Study in Policy Effectiveness

Rodrik, Dani - 2021

differ across countries and issue areas. Case studies of export subsidization in Korea, Brazil, Turkey, India, Kenya, and …

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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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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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Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses : Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence

Erdem, Erkan; Tybout, James R. - 2021

Firm- and plant-level empirical studies typically find that trade liberalization squeezes price-cost margins among import-competing firms, that this heightened competitive pressure induces productivity gains among these same firms, and that further efficiency gains come from market share...

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Cross Country Fairness Considerations and Country Implications of Alternative Approaches to a Global Emission Reduction Regime

Tian, Huifang - 2012

objective of involving large developing countries such as China and India in a post 2012 regime, broader considerations imply …

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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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