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Productivity Growth in Different Firm Sizes in the Malaysian Manufacturing Sector: An Empirical Investigation
Kim, Sangho; Park, Donghyun; Park, Jong-Ho - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2009
Based on Cuesta (2000), this paper develops a stochastic frontier production model that allows for different groups of firms to have different patterns of technical efficiency over time. The authors apply the model to the Malaysian manufacturing sector to decompose total factor productivity...
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European crises and the Asian economies
Pomfret, Richard - In: Journal of Asian Economics 31-32 (2014), pp. 71-81
and public finance crises which became increasingly focussed on the eurozone in 2010–2012. Asia did not experience … there are constraints on Asia being a more assertive force. Problems in the eurozone hold lessons for Asia; the euro and the … Schengenzone are positive responses to the emergence of increasingly complex supply chains. In a similar context, East Asia is …
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Business Cycles of Non-mono-cultural Developing Economies: The Case of ASEAN Countries
Kodama, Masahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006
Based on analyses of actual data, we reveal that many Asian developing economies own economic structural features of "non-mono-cultural economy" and the "large primary good sector", which have not been discussed in developing economies RBC literature. We also examine the input-output tables to...
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The Impact of Foreign Labour on Host Country Wages: The Experience of a Southern Host, Malaysia
Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Devadason, Evelyn S - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of foreign labour on domestic manufacturing wages through a case study of Malaysia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008864023
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The Post-2007 Crises and Europe's Place in the Global Economy.
Pomfret, Richard - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2012
economic crisis. This poses challenges for global economic governance, although there are constraints on Asia being a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548489
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South Korea's Experience with International Capital Flows
Noland, Marcus - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2005
South Korea's experience is unparalleled in its combination of sustained prosperity, capital controls, and financial crisis. Over several decades, South Korea experienced rapid sustained growth in the presence of capital controls. These controls and the de-linking of domestic and international...
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"Managing Global Financial Flows at the Cost of National Autonomy: China and India"
Sen, Sunanda - Levy Economics Institute - 2012
-growth economies in Asia have drawn much less attention than they deserve. This oversight leaves the analysis incomplete, not only by …
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Capital Flows and Real Exchange Rates in Emerging Asian Countries
Jongwanich, Juthathip - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2010
This paper examines the nexus between capital flows and real exchange rate (RER) in emerging Asian countries using a dynamic panel-data model for 2000–2009. In contrast to previous studies, capital flows here are separated into foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and other...
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Capital flows and real exchange rates in emerging Asian countries
Jongwanich, Juthathip; Kohpaiboon, Archanun - In: Journal of Asian Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 138-146
This paper examines the impact of capital flows on real exchange rates in emerging Asian countries during 2000–2009 using a dynamic panel-data model. The estimation results show that the composition of capital flow matters in determining the impact of the flows on real exchange rates. Other...
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Capital mobility in the Caucasus
Jamilov, Rustam - In: Economic Systems 37 (2013) 2, pp. 155-170
This paper examines the degree of capital mobility in the countries of the Caucasus. I estimate a simple model developed in the seminal paper by Feldstein and Horioka (1980). I construct a panel of 6 countries of the Caucasus – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey –...
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