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Japan's Integration into the World Economy in the 1990s

Kleinert, Jörn - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 4, pp. 475-488

In dieser Untersuchung werden Indikatoren wie Offenheit, die Intensität des Intra-industriellen Handels, Feldstein-Horioka-Koeffizienten, grenzüberschreitende Flüsse von Lizenzzahlungen und Anteile der Produktion der Unternehmen eines Landes im Ausland herangezogen, um die Integration Japans...

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Corporate Governance and Merger and Acquisition Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-level Evidence from Japanese Foreign Direct Investment into the US

Alba, Joseph D.; Park, Donghyun; Wang, Peiming - 2009

-border variant of M&A, stronger corporate governance may also reduce M&A FDI. Hence, we use firm-level evidence from Japanese FDI … into the United States to investigate the effect of US corporate governance on Japanese M&A FDI. Our results indicate that … significantly to the sharp decline in Japanese M&A FDI in the US during the 1990s. Our evidence lends some support to the notion …

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Determinants of Different Modes of FDI: Firm-Level Evidence from Japanese FDI into the United States

Alba, Joseph D.; Park, Donghyun; Wang, Peiming - 2010

stylized two-stage investment process. First, we look at the probability of whether a Japanese firm is willing to undertake FDI …

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Corporate Governance and Foreign Direct Investment

Alba, Joseph D.; Park, Donghyun; Wang, Peiming - 2010

(US) on Japanese M&A and non-M&A FDI inflows. In doing so, we expand upon Alba, Park, and Wang (2009), which looked only … Japanese M&A and non-M&A FDI into the US during the 1990s. The regulations apparently encouraged US firms to improve their …

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A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects : Evidence from Brazil

Lemos, Sara - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil?s minimum wage policy is a distinctive and central feature of the Brazilian economy. Not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent but the minimum wage has also been...

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Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?

Lemos, Sara - 2004

A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many minimum wage variables with regional variation have been...

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil

Lemos, Sara - 2004

The minimum wage literature is very limited on empirical evidence for developing countries. This already limited literature is even more limited on the effects of the minimum wage in the informal sector, where most of the poor are. Extending the understanding of minimum wage effects both in...

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices

Lemos, Sara - 2004

This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data used is an under-explored monthly Brazilian household...

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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage

Lemos, Sara - 2004

Following the early 1980s apparent consensus, there has been a controversial debate in the literature over the direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects range from theoretical to empirical identification and data issues. An explanation, however, that...

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Sharing the pain? Credit supply and real effects of bank bail-ins

Lopes, Samuel da Rocha; Beck, Thorsten; Silva, André F. - 2018

We analyze the credit supply and real sector effects of bank bail-ins by exploiting the unexpected failure of a major Portuguese bank and subsequent resolution. Using a matched firm-bank dataset on credit exposures and interest rates, we show that while banks more exposed to the bail-in...

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