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Caselli, Francesco - 2003

Dynastic management is the inter-generational transmission of control over assets that is typical of family-owned firms. It is pervasive around the World, but especially in developing countries. We argue that dynastic management is a potential source of inefficiency: if the heir to the family...

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Gendered Change : 150 Years of Transformation in US Hours

Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Women's contribution to the economy has been markedly underestimated in predominantly agricultural societies, due to their widespread involvement in unpaid agricultural work. Combining data from the US Census and several early sources, we create a consistent measure of male and female employment...

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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 - 2003

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...

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Chinese Rural Industrial Productivity and Urban Spillovers

Peng, Yusheng - 1997

Chinese rural industry has grown three times faster than national GDP, surpassing agriculture in size in 1987, and now nearing half of the total Chinese economy. We use a rich, new county-level data set to explore this dramatic growth. We find that a Cobb-Douglas production function explains...

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Trade policy, income risk, and welfare

Krebs, Tom - 2005

"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of trade reform. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used...

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Interest Rates, Contagion and Capital Controls

Edwards, Sebastian - 2000

In this paper I analyze several issues related to contagion,' including its definition, recent experiences, alternative channels at work, and possible prevention mechanisms. The discussion deals with the macroeconomics implications of contagion, and concentrates on the relationship between the...

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Macroeconomic Volatility in Latin America : A View and Three Case Studies

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000

Mexico …

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On the Instability of Variance Decompositions of the Real Exchange Rate across Exchange-Rate-Regimes : Evidence from Mexico and the United States

Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2000

Variance decompositions of the Mexico-United States real exchange rate are examined using monthly data on consumer … tradable goods and nominal exchange rates holds only in periods in which Mexico was not under a regime of exchange …-rate management. In periods in the sample in which Mexico had a managed exchange-rate regime, the variability of prices of non …

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Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes and Aging : Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s

Cutler, David M. - 2000

We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico …

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Foreign and Domestic Bank Participation in Emerging Markets : Lessons from Mexico and Argentina

Goldberg, Linda - 2000

studying bank-specific data on lending by domestically- and foreign-owned banks in Argentina and Mexico. We find that foreign … similar, and lending rates analogously respond to aggregate demand fluctuations. In Mexico, foreign and domestic banks with … with high levels of impaired assets (Mexico) have more stagnant loan growth and weak responsiveness to market signals …

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