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Human Capital by Gender : a G20 and Selected Geographies Perspective
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Liu, Gang; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five important aggregates by gender: Asia, Africa, Latin America, G20, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468276
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Financial Frictions and the Persistence of History : A Quantitative Exploration
Buera, Francisco J. - 2010
We quantify the role of financial frictions and the initial misallocation of resources in explaining development dynamics. Following a reform that triggers efficient reallocation of resources, our model economy with financial frictions converges slowly to the new steady state--it takes twice as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462256
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Why Doesn't Asia Have Bigger Bond Markets?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2004
Asia's underdeveloped bond markets and dependence on bank finance have been topics of concern since the crisis of 1997 … characteristics and macroeconomic and financial policies account fully for differences in bond market development between Asia and the … rest of the world. Once one controls for these characteristics and policies, in other words, there is no residual Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468117
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The Origins of Financial Development : How the African Slave Trade Continues to Influence Modern Finance
Levine, Ross - 2017
systems. After showing that the intensity with which people were enslaved and exported from Africa during the 1400 - 1900 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453911
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Misallocation, Property Rights, and Access to Finance : Evidence from Within and Across Africa
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2012
We study capital misallocation within and across 10 African countries using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys. First, we compare the extent of misallocation among firms within countries. We document high variation in firms' marginal product of capital (MPK), implying that countries could produce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460629
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Collaborating During Coronavirus : The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nature of Work
DeFilippis, Evan - 2020
We explore the impact of COVID-19 on employee's digital communication patterns through an event study of lockdowns in 16 large metropolitan areas in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Using de- identified, aggregated meeting and email meta-data from 3,143,270 users, we find, compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481465
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482703
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The Long-run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat - 2017
. We construct a newly digitized and geo-referenced dataset of battles in Europe, the Near East and North Africa covering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453647
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Investment in Preventive Care for Children of Middle Eastern Ancestry During the Trump Administration
Danagoulian, Shooshan; Fleming, Owen; Grossman, Daniel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Individuals of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) ancestry in the US have been targeted by anti-immigrant and counterterrorism policies and have been the focus of vitriolic political rhetoric. Despite this, lack of data identifying MENA individuals has prevented systematic evaluation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635639
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Asymmetric Investment Rates
Bai, Hang; Li, Erica X. N.; Xue, Chen; Zhang, Lu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Integrating national accounting with financial accounting, we provide firm-specific estimates of current-cost capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191052