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Does Democratization Promote Competition? : Indonesian Manufacturing Pre and Post Suharto
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2020
Does democratization promote economic competition? This paper documents that the disruption of political connections associated with Suharto's fall had a modest pro-competitive effect on Indonesian manufacturing industries in which his family had extensive business interests. Firms with...
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Service Sector Reform and Manufacturing Productivity : Evidence from Indonesia
Duggan, Victor - 2017
Indonesia?s input-output tables regarding the intensity with which manufacturing sectors use services inputs. Controlling for …
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Does the Minimum Wage Affect Employment? Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Indonesia
Del Carpio, Ximena V. - 2017
Using survey data from the Indonesian manufacturing industry, this paper investigates the impact of minimum wage on employment and wages offered by Indonesian manufacturing firms from 1993 to 2006. It shows that the estimated effects of minimum wage on employment are positive within a province...
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Do Crises Catalyze Creative Destruction? Firm-Level Evidence from Indonesia
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2017
Using Indonesian manufacturing census data (1991-2001), this paper rejects the hypothesis that the East Asian crisis unequivocally improved the reallocative process. The correlation between productivity and employment growth did not strengthen and the crisis induced the exit of relatively...
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Can Minimum Wages Close the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Indonesia
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2018
Using manufacturing plant-level census data, this paper demonstrates that minimum wage increases in Indonesia reduced …
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SME Exchanges in Emerging Market Economies : A Stocktaking of Development Practices
Harwood, Alison - 2017
In recent years, many emerging market countries have developed or are in the process of developing SME Exchanges to provide financing to SMEs, but few have succeeded. This paper aims to help stock exchanges and policy makers think through the key questions to be addressed to determine if, when,...
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Self-Regulation in Securities Markets
Carson, John W. - 2017
This paper canvasses the trends in self-regulation and the role of self-regulation in securities markets in different parts of the world. The paper also describes the conditions in which self-regulation might be an effective element of securities markets regulation, particularly in emerging...
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Finances of Egyptian Listed Firms and the Performance of the Egyptian Stock Exchange
Feyen, Erik - 2017
This paper analyzes the finances of Egypt's listed firms and the performance of the Egyptian stock exchange during the period 2003-07/08. Egyptian companies can be clearly divided into a top tier and a second tier. Egypt's top tier of listed firms tends to finance themselves mainly from...
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Moderate Inflation
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017
Inflation persists at moderate rates (15-30 percent) in all the countries that successfully reduced triple-digit inflation in the 1980s. Several other countries--for example, Colombia--have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods. The authors introduce types of theories of...
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Investing in Indonesia's Education : Allocation, Equity, and Efficiency of Public Expenditures
Arze del Granado, F. Javier - 2016
What are the current trends and main characteristics of public education spending in Indonesia? Is education spending … insufficient? Are expenditures in education efficient and equitable? This study reports the first account of Indonesia's aggregated … education enrollment. It concludes that the current challenges in Indonesia are no longer defined by the need of additional …
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