-based estimation in fact renders the coefficient positive. …

China using the quarterly province-level panel data for the period 1999 q1 to 2007 q4. Recently developed econometric … clear support of a stable long-run relationship between housing investment, non-housing investment and GDP in China. We then … country, while the impacts of housing investment on GDP behave strikingly differently in the three sub-regions of China. …

Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …

common specification, and common estimation methods, we argue that the contradictory findings can be explained by the fact …

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy. …