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Capital Flows in Asia
Ito, Takatoshi - 1999
factors to the role of capital flows in the currency crises in different countries, especially Thailand, Indonesia, and Korea …
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United States Steel's Acquisition of the Great Northern Ore Properties : Vertical Foreclosure or Efficient Contractual Governance?
Mullin, Joseph C. - 1996
This paper examines United States Steel's acquisition by long-term lease of the iron ore properties of the Great Northern Railway. This 1906 transaction, which significantly increased U.S. Steel's already substantial ore holdings, has been characterized by contemporary observers and modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473180
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Firm-Specific Information and the Efficiency of Investment
Chari, Anusha - 2006
We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period following stock market liberalizations, the growth rate of the typical firm's capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by an average of 5.4 percentage points....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466482
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Recovery and Sustainability in East Asia
Park, Yung Chul - 2001
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic adjustment from the crisis in East Asia in a broad international prospective. The stylized pattern from the previous 160 currency crisis episodes over the period from 1970 to 1995 shows a V-type adjustment of real GDP growth in the years prior to and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470347
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Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work?
Kaplan, Ethan - 2001
Malaysia recovered from the Asian financial crisis swiftly after the imposition of capital controls in September 1998 …. The fact that Korea and Thailand recovered in parallel has been interpreted as suggesting that capital controls did not … play a significant role in facilitating Malaysia's rebound. However, the financial crisis was deepening in Malaysia in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470587
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Current Account Sustainability : Selected East Asian and Latin American Experiences
Milesi-Ferrett, Gian Maria - 1996
, Colombia and Mexico -- and three East Asian countries--Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. It identifies a number of potential …
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The Yen and Its East Asian Neighbors, 1980-1995 : Cooperation or Competition?
Takagi, Shinji - 1996
By looking at how an East Asian currency moves when the yen fluctuates sharply against the US dollar, we sometimes find that the reaction has been much more significant than would be suggested by the econometric estimates of the weight of the yen in nominal exchange rate determination. Moreover,...
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Effect of Macroprudential Policies on Sovereign Bond Markets : Evidence from the ASEAN-4 Countries
Aizenman, Joshua; Uddin, Mohammed Gazi Salah; Luo, Tianqi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
ASEAN-4 countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand). We measure sovereign vulnerability within a risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388833
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Mass Secondary Schooling and the State : the role of state compulsion in the high school movement
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2003
In the three decades from 1910 to 1940, the fraction of U.S. youths enrolled in public and private secondary schools increased from 18 to 71 percent and the fraction graduating soared from 9 to 51 percent. At the same time, state compulsory education and child labor legislation became more...
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Human Capital and Social Capital : The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1998
The United States led all other nations in the development of universal and publicly-funded secondary school education and much of the growth occurred from 1910 to 1940. The focus here is on the reasons for the high school movement' in American generally and why it occurred so early and swiftly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472366