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Deflation and Relative Prices: Evidence from Japan and Hong Kong

Gerlach, Stefan; Kugler, Peter - 2007

We test the menu cost model of Ball and Mankiw (1994, 1995), which implies that the impact of price dispersion on inflation should differ between inflation and deflation episodes, using data for Japan and Hong Kong. We use a random crosssection sample split when calculating the moments of the...

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Do active innovation policies matter? Findings from a survey on the Hong Kong electronics SMEs

Liu, Wan-Hsin - 2008

Since 1997 the Hong Kong (HK) government has markedly changed its role from being a mere institution provider to being an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D...

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Academia-industry linkages and the role of active innovation policies: firm-level evidence in Hong Kong

Liu, Wan-Hsin - 2009

This paper analyses academia-industry linkages of the Hong Kong (HK) electronics small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and investigates the role of active innovation policies in this regard. It uses data collected from a questionnaire survey in HK, focusing on three main academia-industry...

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Comparative analysis of Finno-Sinic management: In-depth study of the dimensions of cross-cultural friction and synergy in management of Finnish firms in Hong Kong

Koivisto, Jussi V.; Lampinen, Matti - 2002

This study focuses on how cross-cultural synergy and friction emerge in Finno-Sinic management communication, decision-making and organisation empowerment. The paper is based on a qualitative methodology and in-depth interviews with Finnish and Chinese subjects in Finnish companies in Hong Kong....

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Corruption within a cooperative society

Kosfeld, Michael - 1997

In this paper we take up a model of Okada (1996) to describe the possibility of collective cooperation in a n-person Prisoner's Dilemma game by means of institutional arrangements. In addition, we introduce the possibility to corrupt the institutional authority by paying him some positive...

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Risk attitude, beliefs, and information in a corruption game: An experimental analysis

Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Haller, Sven; Krüger, Tyll; … - 2012

For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs … reduces corruption. …

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Petty corruption: A game-theoretic approach

Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane; Majumdar, Mukul; Radner, Roy - 2008

The paper explores a game-theoreticmodel of petty corruption involving a sequence of entrepreneurs and a track of …

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Do Clean Hands ensure healthy growth? Theory and practice in the battle against corruption

Coppier, Raffaella; Costantini, Mauro; Piga, Gustavo - 2009

This paper analyzes the existing relationship between economic growth and the monitoring of corruption and examines the … possible outcome of the implementation of a State reform in order to weed out corruption. Growth is always higher when … monitoring is high and therefore corruption eradicated. But growth declines when monitoring against corruption is not too high …

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The impact of tax morale and institutional quality on the shadow economy

Schneider, Friedrich; Torgler, Benno - 2007

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...

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Corruption and the shadow economy: An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

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. …

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