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This paper examines the evolution of female labor market outcomes from 1987 to 2008 by assessing the role of changing labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the importance of structural change in reducing gender...
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Developing Asia experienced a sharp surge in foreign currency reserves prior to the 2008-9 crisis. The global crisis …
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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,...
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We argue that positive comovements between land prices and business investment are a driving force behind the broad … joint dynamics of land prices and business investment. …
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guarantee existence. When investment adjustment costs are introduced, the monetary and fiscal policy dichotomy is in principle …
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adjustment function implies that aggregate investment is relatively unresponsive to aggregate shocks in deep recessions as …
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emerging markets. The paper measures the risk of short-term exposure by estimating, at the firm level, the effect on investment … not find that this reduction in net worth translates into a drop in investment. …
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more favourable loan package; that it is associated with over-investment even when investment does not create collateral …
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We argue that, in a simple setting, the relation between the intensity of competition and cost-reducing investment is U … show that, except for firms that are much less efficient than the competitor, investment in the subgame-perfect equilibrium …
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or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses … on investment more likely. Extending the basic framework, the paper shows that separation of ownership and control …, endogenous entry and cumulative investments make positive effects of competition on investment more likely. Imperfect upstream …
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