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How National are Business Systems? The Role of Different State Types and Complementary Institutions in Constructing Homogenous Systems of Economic Coordination and Control
Whitley, Richard - Manchester Business School - 2003
A central tenet of economic sociology is that culture and regulatory institutions help to constitute the nature of economic actors and guide their actions, thus affecting economic outcomes (see, e.g., DiMaggio, 1994; Smelser and Swedberg, 1994). As socially organised agents operating in different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869981
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Macroeconomic adjustment and the history of crises in open economies
Aizenman, Joshua; Noy, Ilan - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of the history of crises on macroeconomic performance. We first study the impact of past banking crises on the probability of a future banking crisis. Applying data for 1980 - 2010 for all countries for which the required information is available, controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369504
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Structural change in developing countries: Has it decreased gender inequality?
Rendall, Michelle - 2012
labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316911
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International reserves and swap lines: Substitutes or complements?
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Park, Donghyun - 2010
Developing Asia experienced a sharp surge in foreign currency reserves prior to the 2008-9 crisis. The global crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287777
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Pan-Asianism in Meiji and Taishô Japan : A Preliminary Framework
Saaler, Sven - 2002
Pan-Asianism in Japanese history has not received much scholarly attention so far. Indeed, as some scholars have pointed out (Beasley 1987a), it is questionable whether the notion of an ideology that only existed as a loose set of ideas and, moreover, had its foundations in European concepts,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005850185
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Mitigating the COVID-19 effect: Emergency economic policy-making in Central Europe
Podvršič, Ana; Becker, Joachim; Piroska, Dóra; … - 2020
The paper analyses the economic policy-making in the first phase of the epidemic in five Central Europe countries, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We focus on the participatory character of the governments'...
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Credit crunches and credit allocation in a model of entrepreneurship
Bassetto, Marco; Cagetti, Marco; De Nardi, Mariacristina - 2013
We study the effects of credit shocks in a model with heterogeneous entrepreneurs, financing constraints, and a realistic firm size distribution. As entrepreneurial firms can grow only slowly and rely heavily on retained earnings to expand the size of their business in this set-up, we show that,...
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Indian Economic Outlook 2008-09 and 2009-10
Kumar, Rajiv - 2009
This paper provides an outlook for the Indian economy in the light of the extraordinary global financial crisis, that started in the US, but which has now transformed into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The Indian economy was slowing down even before the onset of global...
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Theories of finance and financial crisis: Lessons for the Great Recession
Dodig, Nina; Herr, Hansjörg - 2015
the Great Recession, what visions they develop about future development of capitalism and to which extent these different …
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The global financial crisis and a new capitalism?
Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos - 2010
-based on self-regulated and efficient markets. Although laissez-faire capitalism is intrinsically unstable, the lessons of the … regulations that led to the '30 glorious years of capitalism' (1948-77) and that could have helped avoid a financial crisis as … to predict. It will not be financialized, but the glory years' tendencies toward a global and knowledge-based capitalism …
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