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moderate the perceived need for insurance, and China would have to loom large in both solutions …
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Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …
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attainability of the CCP%u2019s goal. However, China%u2019s progress in addressing fundamental constraints that might limit rapid … matters are not in doubt. In education, China has substantially increased the percentage of its workforce receiving a college …
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decades, whereas China's has been on a rising trend, yet the share of trade among Asian economies with the dollar zone …. One big dollar-zone economy that has been increasing its presence in Asia is China. However, China has been recently … making efforts to “internationalize” its currency, the yuan (RMB). Hence, if China succeeds in its internationalization …
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Over the past decade, non–Paris Club creditors, notably China, have become an important source of financing for low …
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How do firms in high-income countries adjust to emerging market competition? We estimate how a representative panel of Canadian firms adjusts innovation activities, business strategies, and exit in response to large increases in Chinese imports between 1999 and 2005. On average, process...
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This paper estimates the relative price sensitivity of individuals' choice of whether to buy computers online versus in retail stores using a new data source on the computer purchase behavior of more than 20,000 people. To estimate the degree of competition between the two channels, the paper...
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This paper examines possible consequences of subsidies to R&D and to volume production proposed under the Clinton administration's flat panel display initiative. We do this in the context of a model in which firms behave competitively in the short run, while realizing that their choices of...
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This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
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This paper examines two potential channels of knowledge acquisition that underlie firm productivity growth in the Taiwanese electronics industry: participation in the export market and investments in Ramp;D and/or worker training. We focus on the argument that a firm's own investments in Ramp;D...
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