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Explaining the migration of stocks from exchanges in emerging economies to international centres

Claessens, Stijn; Kingebiel, Daniela; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2002

The purpose of the study is two-fold. First, it examines whether Internet usage converges across the geographical space … empirical evidence on the determinants of Internet usage. With regards to convergence, the data show β and σ convergence over … the period 1995 to 2001, although the speed of convergence is low. The empirical analysis of the determinants of Internet …

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Financial globalization in emerging countries: Diversification vs. offshoring

Ceballos, Francisco; Didier, Tatiana; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2012

Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macro-financial and crisis implications and its perceived large expansion. But financial globalization has taken different forms over time. This paper examines two important concurrent dimensions of financial...

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Asia's Changing Role in World Trade: Prospects for South - South Trade Growth to 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - 2011

Developing Asia's rapid economic growth has been shifting the global economic and industrial centers of gravity away from the North Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade, and boosting South–South trade. How will trade patterns change over the next 2 decades in the course of...

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Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets

Anderson, Kym; Rausser, Gordon; Swinnen, Johan - 2012

The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transfirmational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...

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Teaching practices and social capital

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - 2011

We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...

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