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Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist … introduces the chapters comprising the NBER volume Capitalizing China (Fan and Morck, eds. 2012), which examine China's high … consider policy alternatives the CCP might consider if its goal is China's elevation into the ranks of high income countries …
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also highlighted their pathological problems. This paper studies the case of China for pitfalls of a state … within China is low. Furthermore, to the extent some capital moves around the country, the government (as opposed to the …
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China's economic model involves active government intervention in financial markets. We develop a theoretical framework …
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We provide a comprehensive review of China's financial system, and explore directions of future development. First, the … resources in the economy has been limited and ineffective. We discuss issues related to the further development of China's stock … China are those that reduce the likelihood of damaging financial crises, including a banking sector crisis, a real estate or …
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A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been...
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The period preceding the global financial crisis was characterized by a substantial widening of current account imbalances across the world. Since the onset of the crisis, these imbalances have contracted to a significant extent. In this paper, we analyze the ongoing process of external...
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This paper investigates the impact of the history of crises on macroeconomic performance. We first study the impact of past banking crises on the probability of a future banking crisis. Applying data for 1980‐2010 for all countries for which the required information is available, controlling...
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Climate change will increase the risk of temperature extremes. Induced innovation could offset some of this threat. This paper explores the demand and supply for climate adaptation innovation in a market economy. Climate change induces this innovation because the rising temperatures increase...
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We use a forty-two country model of production and trade to assess the implications of eliminating current account imbalances for relative wages, relative GDP's, real wages, and real absorption. How much relative GDP's need to change depends on flexibility of two forms: factor mobility and the...
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The pronounced and persistent impact of the global financial crisis of 2008 motivates our empirical analysis of the role of institutions and macroeconomic fundamentals on countries' adjustment to shocks. Our empirical analysis shows that the associations of growth level, growth volatility,...
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