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Yen or Yuan? China's role in the future of Asian monetary integration
Hefeker, Carsten; Nabor, Andreas - 2002
Most proposals for Asian monetary cooperation assign a special role to the Japanese yen as an anchor currency. We focus instead on the potential role of the Chinese renminbi. It becomes increasingly clear that China will assume the role of the dominant economy in the region, and that it will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295536
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EU integration and its implications for Asian economies: What we know and what not
Langhammer, Rolf J.; Schweickert, Rainer - 2006
between EU, US, and Japanese exports to Asia on the one hand and Asian and European exports to industrialized countries on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277720
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South-South Trade: An Asian Perspective
Athukorala, Prema-Chandra - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to inform the contemporary policy debate on promoting trade among developing countries (South–South trade) by analyzing trade patterns of developing Asian economies from a comparative global perspective. The paper begins with a stage-setting historical overview of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507317
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The G20: Engine of Asian Regionalism?
Dobson, Hugo - 2011
, Asia's expanded participation in G-summitry has attracted considerable attention. As original G7 member Japan is joined by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293538
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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries
Schmiele, Anja - 2009
This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities. The paper draws a comprehensive picture of driving forces by including firm capabilities, characteristics of the firm’s competitive environment and the influence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299465
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Der 11. September und die Folgen in Asien: Politische Reaktionen in der VR China, Japan, Malaysia und Vietnam
Adelsberger, Karin; Derichs, Claudia; Heberer, Thomas; … - 2002
Die Staaten der Welt haben auf die Terroranschläge des 11. September 2001 und die nachfolgenden Militärschläge gegen Afghanistan unterschiedlich reagiert. In der Region Ost- und Südostasien waren die Staaten je nach Position im Gefüge der internationalen Beziehungen und je nach innerer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302325
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Catastrophic Medical Expenditure Risk
Flores, Gabriela; O'Donnell, Owen - 2012
Medical expenditure risk can pose a major threat to living standards. We derive decomposable measures of catastrophic medical expenditure risk from reference-dependent utility with loss aversion. We propose a quantile regression based method of estimating risk exposure from cross-section data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326388
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Corporate cash holding in Asia
Horioka, Charles Yuji; Terada-Hagiwara, Akiko - 2013
In this paper, we analyze the determinants of corporate saving in the form of changes in the stock of cash for 11 Asian economies using firm-level data from the Oriana Database for the 2002 - 2011 period. We find some evidence that cash flow has a positive impact on the change in the stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332288
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The dynamics of women's labour supply in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010
that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269754
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China's exports in ICT and its impact on Asian countries
Xing, Yuqing - 2008
This paper analyses China's ICT exports growth in its two major markets Japan and the US from 1992 to 2004. It focuses on ICT products classified in SITC 75, 76 and 77. The empirical results show that Chinese exports had maintained two-digit annual growth during the period. The growth was much...
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