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Do Public Firms Respond to Industry Opportunities More than Private Firms? The Impact of Initial Firm Quality

Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2019

We track firms at birth and compare the growth pattern of IPO firms and their birth-matched counterparts. Firms that are larger at birth with faster initial growth are more likely to attain a larger size later in life and go public. Firms in the top percentile of predicted propensity to go...

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Productivity Effects of Tve Privatization : The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region

Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - 2021

While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …

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The Rise of State-Connected Private Owners in China

Bai, Chong-En; Hsieh, Chang-Tai; Song, Zheng (Michael); … - 2021

We use administrative registration records with information on the owners of all Chinese firms to document their connections through equity investments. We show that the largest private owners have direct equity ties with state owners, the next largest private owners have equity ties with...

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Funding in Public Sector Pension Plans - International Evidence

Ponds, Eduard H.M. - 2015

Most countries have separate pension plan for public sector employees. The future fiscal burden of these plans can be substantial as the government usually is the largest employer, pension promises in the public sector tend to be relatively generous, and future payments have to be paid out...

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Bad Investments and Missed Opportunities? Postwar Capital Flows to Asia and Latin America

Ohanian, Lee E. - 2015

Since 1950, the economies of East Asia grew rapidly but received little inter-national capital, while Latin America received considerable international capitaleven as their economies stagnated. The literature typically explains the failureof capital to flow to high growth regions as resulting...

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Capital Flows, Foreign Direct Investment, and Debt-Equity Swaps in Developing Countries

Edwards, Sebastian - 2021

One of the nest serious consequences of the debt crisis of 1982 has been the reduction in the accessibility to the world capital market for most developing countries. This situation has proved to be particularly serious for Latin American nations. At this juncture, a key question is how to...

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Latin America and Foreign Capital in the Twentieth Century : Economics, Politics, and Institutional Change

Taylor, Alan M. - 2021

Latin America began the twentieth century as a relatively poor region on the periphery of the world economy. One cause of a low level of income per person was capital scarcity. Long run growth via capital deepening requires either the mobilization of domestic capital through savings, or large...

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Foreign Capital in Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Taylor, Alan M. - 2021

This paper examines the history of foreign investment in Latin America in the two centuries since independence. Investment flows to the region were sometimes large and always volatile. Symptoms of overborrowing, sudden stops, debt, default and crises have been evident from the beginning. In...

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International Trade and Factor Mobility : an Empirical Investigation

Goldberg, Linda S.; Klein, Michael W. - 2021

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been growing rapidly, at a pace far exceeding the growth in international trade. Thus, a full understanding of the relationship between trade in goods and FDI is important for obtaining a complete picture of the extent and sources of international linkages. We...

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The United States and Foreign Competition in Latin America

Edwards, Sebastian - 2022

This paper analyzes the evolution of the U.S. trade relations with Latin America, investigating the possible path that these relations will take in the future. The data analyzed show that during the last 15 years or so there has been no significant loss in the U.S. aggregate competitive position...

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