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East Asian Financial and Economic Development
Morck, Randall - 2017
over a single generation. China now seems poised to follow a similar trajectory. All three cases highlight the importance …
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Son Preference, Sex Selection and Economic Development : The Case of South Korea
Edlund, Lena - 2013
Sex ratios at birth in South Korea reached 116.5 boys per 100 girls in 1990, but have since declined. In 2007, sex ratios were almost normal, a development heralded as a sign that son preference and sex choice have vanished. However, normal sex ratios imply neither. We show that over the last 60...
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Host-Country Financial Development and Multinational Activity
Bilir, Kamran - 2014
This paper evaluates the influence of host-country financial development on the global operations of multinational firms. Using detailed U.S. data, we provide evidence that host-country financial development increases entry by multinational affiliates, while also decreasing affiliate sales in...
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Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries
Harrison, Ann - 2009
In this paper we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. Are developing countries justified in imposing tariffs, subsidies, and tax breaks that imply distortions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463389
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Empirically Distinguishing Health Impacts of Transboundary and Domestic Air Pollution in Mixture
Lee, Jaecheol; Hsiang, Solomon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
approximately 5* (North Korea) and 2.6* (China) greater than a unit of PM originating within South Korea, and that health responses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015195025
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Low-quality Patents in the Eye of the Beholder : Evidence from Multiple Examiners
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan - 2016
and China the loosest. The fraction of grants that are inconsistent with the office's own standard ranges from 2-6 per …
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Chinese Yellow Dust and Korean Infant Health
Baek, Deokrye - 2015
Naturally-occurring yellow sand outbreaks, which are produced by winds flowing to Korea from China and Mongolia, create …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457056
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Are Commodity Futures Prices Barometers of the Global Economy?
Hu, Conghui - 2013
prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458956
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Global Business and Financial Cycles : A Tale of Two Capital Account Regimes
Acalin, Julien - 2020
, as well as in South Korea and China--two countries on different sides of the trilemma triangle of international finance …. We document that global financial shocks in both China and South Korea explain a substantial share of equity return … than 10 percent in Korea and negligible in the case of China). We also find that the combination of a closer capital …
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Panel Forecasts of Country-Level Covid-19 Infections
Liu, Laura - 2020
We use dynamic panel data models to generate density forecasts for daily Covid-19 infections for a panel of countries/regions. At the core of our model is a specification that assumes that the growth rate of active infections can be represented by autoregressive fluctuations around a downward...
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