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Competition and Productivity in Japanese Manufacturing Industries

Okada, Yosuke - 2022

This paper examines the determinants of productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries, looking particularly at the impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in Japanese manufacturing for the years 1994-2000, I show...

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Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule : A Model of Personal Rule

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Verdier, Thierry - 2021

Many developing countries have suffered under the personal rule of kleptocrats', who implement highly inefficient economic policies, expropriate the wealth of their citizens, and use the proceeds for their own glorification or consumption. We argue that the success of kleptocrats rests, in part,...

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Does Competition Destroy Ethical Behavior?

Shleifer, Andrei - 2021

Explanations of unethical behavior often neglect the role of competition, as opposed to greed, in assuring its spread. Using the examples of child labor, corruption, excessive' executive pay, corporate earnings manipulation, and commercial activities by universities, this paper clarifies the...

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Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?

Arunachalam, Raj - 2010

This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of theoretical papers that have attempted to explain...

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The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies : A Structural Change Perspective

Diao, Xinshen - 2017

Growth has accelerated in a wide range of developing countries over the last couple of decades, resulting in an extraordinary period of convergence with the advanced economies. We analyze this experience from the lens of structural change – the reallocation of labor from low- to...

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Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition : Evidence from South Asia

Vogl, Tom - 2012

Using data from South Asia, this paper examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to allow sufficient time to marry off her younger...

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Trade, Poverty and the Lagging Regions of South Asia

Krishna, Pravin - 2010

This chapter studies the differential effects that trade openness may have on leading and lagging regions within a country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is smaller in lagging states. The expected transmission...

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Missing Unmarried Women

Anderson, Siwan - 2015

That unmarried individuals die at a faster rate than married individuals at all ages is well documented. Unmarried women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is more extreme for women in these regions compared to...

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A New Metric for Banking Integration in Europe

Gropp, Reint - 2010

taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border retail bank flows, cross-border bank mergers and the law of one price … reveal no evidence of integration in retail banking. This paper shows that the previous tests of bank integration are weak in … that they are not based on an equilibrium concept and are neither necessary nor sufficient statistics for bank integration …

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Will the U.S. Bank Recapitalization Succeed? Eight Lessons from Japan

Hoshi, Takeo - 2010

During the financial crisis that started in 2007, the U.S. government has used a variety of tools to try to rehabilitate the U.S. banking industry. Many of those strategies were used also in Japan to combat its banking problems in the 1990s. There are also a surprising number of other...

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