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The Export Base Model with a Supply-Side Stimulus to the Export Sector

Ha, Soo Jung; J. Kim, Swales - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2010

In the export-base model, the level of a region’s economic activity is underpinned by the performance of its export sector (Daly, 1940; Dixon and Thirlwall, 1975; Kaldor, 1970; North, 1955). This theory is now almost universally represented as a primitive version of the familiar Input-Output (IO) or...

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Common and Idiosyncratic Factors of the Exchange Risk Premium in Emerging European Markets

Byrne, Joseph P.; Nagayasu, Jun - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2008

Existing empirical evidence suggests that the Uncovered Interest Rate Parity (UIRP) condition may not hold due to an exchange risk premium. For a panel data set of eleven emerging European economies we decompose this exchange risk premium into an idiosyncratic (country-specific) elements and a...

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Financial Distress in Chinese Industry: Microeconomic, Macroeconomic and Institutional Infuences

Bhattacharjee, Arnab; Hany, Jie - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2010

We study the impact of both microeconomic factors and the macroeconomy on the financial distress of Chinese listed companies over a period of massive economic transition, 1995 to 2006. Based on an economic model of financial distress under the institutional setting of state protection against...

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What drives urban consumption in mainland china? The role of property price dynamics

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael; Mehrotra, Aaron - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2011

for mainland China. In a stochastic modelling framework, the riskiness, rate of increase and persistence of house price …

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China´s new labour contract law: no harm to employment?

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2008

In January 2008, China imposed a new labour contract law. This new law is the most significant reform to the law of … employment relations in mainland China in more than a decade. The paper provides a theoretical framework on the inter …

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Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth

Ding, Sai; Guariglia, Alessandra; Knight, John - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2010

This paper attempts to address a puzzle in China’s investment pattern: despite high aggregate investment and remarkable …

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Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms

Ding, Sai; Guariglia, Alessandra; Knight, John - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2010

regions, we find that corporate investment in China has become increasingly efficient over time. However, based on direct … explanation for China‟s overinvestment, especially for the private sector, while in the state sector, overinvestment is …

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Interprovincial disparities in China since the reforms: Convergence or divergence?

Noorbakhsh, Farhad; Wang, Zhikai - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2010

This paper investigates the extent of disparities amongst the provinces of China since the economic reform in 1978 up … empirical literature on regional inequality in China it investigates whether or not the dynamic economic growth in China has …

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Factor Proportions and the Growth of World Trade

Zymek, Robert - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2013

-labour ratios across countries have increased in the wake of two shocks to the global economy: i) the opening up of China and ii …

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Social Housing Policies in Latin America and Singapore: Lessons for China

Sandilands, Roger - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2012

This paper addresses the challenges facing China in accelerating the pace of rural-urban migration as part of its on … lessons for China are offered from the different urbanisation experiences of Latin America (especially Colombia) and Singapore. …

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