Moroccan manufacturing firms generally choose to incorporate under one of two legalforms: ‘Société Anonyme’ (SA) and ‘Société À Responsibilité Limitée’ (SARL). This thesis is about that choice and its consequence for firms’ access to bank overdraft facilities.In 2001, Morocco...

Interest rates in China are composed of a mix of both market-determined interest rates (interbank rates and bond yields), and regulated interest rates (retail lending and deposit rates), reflecting China's gradual process of interest rate liberalization. This paper investigates the main drivers...

Attempts to measure aspects of the Indigenous economy in Canada are limited by data availability and quality. Drawing on the most recent data sources and research, we provide an overview of the Indigenous economy in Canada. This includes a discussion of the various characteristics of the...

Using data from patents, citations, inter-sectoral sales and customs, we examine the international diffusion of technology through imports of sectoral knowledge and production inputs. We construct measures of the flow of technology embodied in imports. These measures are weighted by...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. June 2010. Major: Economics. Advisors: Amil Petrin and Patrick Bajari. 1 computer file (PDF); x, 124 pages, appendix pages 99-124. Ill.(some col.)

This study first offers a brief literature survey of labor market discrimination due to ethnicity against the indigenous and Afro-descendant population in Ecuador, a largely mestizo country. We use ethnic self-identification reported in the 2000 EMEDINHO survey as a proxy for ethnicity. Next, we...

This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...

This paper examines a relationship between foreign ownership and innovation novelty in the context of host advanced developing economies. The analysis is focused on two dimensions ofproduct innovation novelty, the novelty of introduced innovations and the economic benefitsfrom introduced...

Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen die kulturellen Ursachen f?r die Marginalisierung des indigenen Volkes der Papua im modernen ?konomischen Bereich der indonesischen Provinz Papua. Den theoretischen Hintergrund der Arbeit bilden Schumpeters Entwicklungslogik und die darauf aufbauende...

This paper analyzes the effects of an educational system expansion on labour market outcomes, drawing upon a 15-year natural experiment in the Russian Federation. Regional increases in student intake capacities in Russian universities, a result of educational reforms, provide a plausibly...