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Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development : Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment
Cai, Hongbin - 2009
We report results from a large randomized natural field experiment conducted in southwestern China in the context of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463253
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Social Trust and Differential Reactions of Local and Foreign Investors to Public News
Jia, Chunxin - 2015
This paper uses the segmented dual-class shares issued by several dozen Chinese firms---A shares to local Chinese investors and H shares to foreign investors---to compare reactions of local and foreign investors to the same public news. We find that local investors react more strongly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457591
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More Trusting, Less Trust? An Investigation of Early E-Commerce in China
Cai, Hongbin - 2013
large transaction-level data set from the early years of Eachnet.com (an eBay equivalent in China), we find evidence that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459701
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Internet Access and U.S. - China Innovation Competition
Hoberg, Gerard - 2020
Using new measures of expanded Internet access in China and internet-based search, we examine how competitive shocks … from China impact U.S. innovation through the markets for innovation and existing products. We identify shocks to … innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482450
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Gender Discrimination in Job Ads : Theory and Evidence
Kuhn, Peter J. - 2011
We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461205
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Optimal interest-rate rules
Giannoni, Marc Paolo; Woodford, Michael - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001731309
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Inflation Targeting in Emerging Market Countries
Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2000
This paper outlines what inflation targeting involves for emerging market/transition countries and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this monetary policy strategy. The discussion suggests that although inflation targeting is not a panacea and may not be appropriate for many emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470925
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The First Year of the Eurosystem : Inflation Targeting or Not?
Svensson, Lars E.O. - 2000
This paper is a brief evaluation of the Eurosystem's monetary-policy regime after its first year, in particular of the extent to which it is similar to inflation targeting as practiced by an increasing number of central banks. I examine the Eurosystem's goals, framework for monetary-policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470926
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Open-Economy Inflation Targeting
Svensson, Lars E. O. - 2000
The paper extends previous analysis of closed-economy inflation targeting to a small open economy with forward-looking aggregate supply and demand with some microfoundations, and with stylized realistic lags in the different transmission channels for monetary policy. The paper compares targeting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471032
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Monetary Policy Strategies for Latin America
Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2000
The paper examines possible monetary policy strategies for Latin America that may help lock-in the gains in the fight against inflation attained by the region during the 1990s. We start by calling for a refocus of the debate about the conduct of monetary policy away from thinking that it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471153