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Analogous Cycles with Lagged Co-movement: U.S. and East Asian Business Cycles
Yamagata, Tatsufumi - In: The Developing Economies 36 (1998) 4, pp. 407-439
In selected East Asian economies, the behavior of detrended macroeconomic variables was found to be similar to that observed in the postwar U.S. economy. Consumption and investment are highly procyclical while the balance of trade and the price level are counter-cyclical in most of them. Labor...
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Exportinduziertes Wachstum als Chance für die „nächsten Tiger“?
Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using a strategy of export-led growth and an activist industrial policy, Japan, the Asian Tigers and more recently … of Japan, the Tiger states and China with their respective strategies of industrial policy and export-led growth. Is …
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Fiscal discipline and competitiveness in newly industrialised economies: lessons from the Nordics model
Rajan, Ramkishen S.; Tan, Khee Giap; Tan, Kong Yam - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 7 (2015) 2, pp. 118-139
Kong, Singapore, (South) Korea and Taiwan since the Asian financial crisis. The NIEs have been globally competitive and …
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Revenue enhancement and wealth effects of mergers and acquisitions in Asian emerging markets
Ma, Jianyu; Pagan, Jose A.; Chu, Yun - In: International Journal of Revenue Management 4 (2010) 2, pp. 179-194
Revenue enhancement and value creation are core issues of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Revenue enhancing synergy associated with cross-industry M&A is supported by Asian emerging markets. Both within-industry M&A and cross-industry M&A deals realise significant positive abnormal returns. The...
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Labour shortage responses in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia : a review and evaluation
Ducanes, Geoffrey; Abella, Manolo I - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2008
Looks at the extent of and policy responses to the problem of labour shortage in the economies of Japan, Korea …, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. …
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Geographical Simulation Analysis for Logistics Enhancement in Asia
Tsubota, Kenmei; Kumagai, Satoru; Hayakawa, Kazunobu; … - EcoMod Network - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of trade cost reduction on the Asian economy by employing a sub-national level model based on New Economic Geography. Our model comprises seven sectors, including manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors, and 1,715 regions in 18...
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Do capital controls affect the response of investment to saving? evidence from the Pacific Basin
Kim, Sun Bae - In: Economic Review (1993), pp. 23-39
This paper examines the effect of capital controls on the response of investment to savings in Pacific Basin countries. A robust finding is that the size of the savings coefficient tends to be smaller (larger) in countries with relatively higher (lower) capital controls. Additionally, relaxation...
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Social Welfare Systems in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis including Private Welfare
Jacobs, Didier - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 1998
This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong … Kong and Singapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as income distribution aspects, based on both … Kong and Singapore's public welfare expenditures will remain very low as long as they continue to rely mainly upon …
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Selection of stock markets: a factor analysis approach
Hui, Tak Kee; Tsui, Kai Chong; Chua, David - In: International Journal of Applied Management Science 2 (2010) 2, pp. 136-151
This study uses factor analysis to simplify the complex relationships among stock markets and to reduce the number of markets required for portfolio construction. Our sample consists of the US and 11 Asia-Pacific stock markets. We find that the reduced portfolio obtained from factor analysis has...
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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia.
Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2001
We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors should indicate declining relative schooling...
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