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Why Do Europeans Smoke More than Americans?
Cutler, David M. - 2006
Europe. There is a nonmonotonic relationship between smoking and income; among richer countries and people, higher incomes … are associated with less smoking. This can account for about one-fifth of the U.S./Europe difference. Almost one-half of …
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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
de la Croix, David - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions … explain the rise of Europe relative to regions that relied on the transmission of knowledge within extended families or clans …
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Can a Tiger Change Its Stripes? Reform of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in the Penumbra of the State
Harrison, Ann - 2019
there are clear improvements in performance post-privatization. The tiger can change its stripes; however, the government …
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Do Public Firms Respond to Industry Opportunities More Than Private Firms? The Impact of Initial Firm Quality
Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2019
We track firms at birth and compare the growth pattern of IPO firms and their birth-matched counterparts. Firms that are larger at birth with faster initial growth are more likely to attain a larger size later in life and go public. Firms in the top percentile of predicted propensity to go...
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Profiting from Government Stakes in a Command Economy : Evidence from Chinese Asset Sales
Calomiris, Charles - 2008
contrast to the "privatization premium" found in earlier work, we find a negative effect of government ownership on returns at … that personal ties can substitute for the benefits of government ownership. The "privatization discount" is higher for … relatively high welfare payments to employees, which presumably would fall with privatization, benefit disproportionately from …
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Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation : Evidence from China
Fang, Lily - 2016
Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects innovation in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with...
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Grasp the Large, Let Go of the Small : The Transformation of the State Sector in China
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2015
Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control. Small state-owned firms were privatized or closed. Large state-owned firms were corporatized and merged into large industrial groups under the control of the Chinese state. The...
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Reluctant Entrepreneurs : Evidence from China's SOE Reform
Fang, Hanming; Li, Ming; Wu, Zenan; Zhang, Yapei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the quality of entrepreneurship in China. Using long series of firm registration and performance data, we document that the massive SOE downsizing in the late 1990s significantly improved the quality of entrepreneur- ship. Compared with...
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Privatization's Impacts on State-Owned Enterprises : A Tale of Zombie versus Healthy Firms
Wang, Ruiting; Wang, Xue; Xu, Gang; Zha, Tao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We estimate the effects of privatization on zombie versus healthy state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China, extending … privatization of underperforming, zombie-like entities can lead to substantial economic improvements and greater efficiency …
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The Chinese Corporate Savings Puzzle : A Firm-level Cross-country Perspective
Bayoumi, Tamim - 2010
China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account surplus. The mainstream explanation for high corporate savings is a combination of windfall profits in state-owned firms, especially in resource sectors, and mis-governance of...
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