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Firm Survival and Financial Development : Evidence from a Panel of Emerging Asian Economies
Tsoukas, Serafeim - 2010
Using a panel of five Asian economies - Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand - over the period 1995 …-2007 we analyze the links between firm survival and financial development. We find that traditionally used measures of … financial development play an important role in influencing firm survival. When stock markets become larger or more liquid firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147052
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The Economic Freedom of Asian Tigers - an Essay on Controversy
Paldam, Martin - 2002
The "tigers" are a group of 4-5 east Asian countries, which have joined the rich western countries after a period of 30-40 years of "miraculous" growth. Large controversies surround the attempt to explain how they did it. The paper briefly surveys the discussion. The economic freedom index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122071
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Herfindahl-Hirschman Meets International Trade and Development Theories
Kellman, Mitchell H.; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Zakład Ekonometrii Stosowanej, Szkoła Główna … - 2011
. Development Economic Theory embraces the expectation of a direct relationship between economic growth and export diversification … proposes a Specialization Index and applies it to six small developing countries: Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008837643
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Introduction: finance, development and the state in East Asia
Rethel, Lena; Thurbon, Elizabeth - In: New political economy 25 (2020) 3, pp. 315-319
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International marriage for homogeneity? : evidence from marriage migration in South Korea
Cho, Seo-Young - 2014
This paper investigates empirically whether cultural, racial, and linguistic similarities increase marriage migration. By using marriage migration data from South Korea, I find that the similarities between an origin country and South Korea pull more marriage migration, but the positive effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409958
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Chinese and South Korean Views on Accepting Bribes : An Empirical Study
McGee, Robert W. - 2017
One might think that bribery is always unethical. Studies by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959975
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The Betrayed Generation? Intra-Household Transfers and Retirement Behavior in South Korea
Kim, Kyeongkuk - 2018
We consider the nexus of intra-household transfers, the sex composition of the sibship, and parental retirement behavior in Korea. We provide evidence that the cost of raising sons is higher than it is for daughters in Korea. Thus, in the absence of sufficient transfers from adult sons to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909975
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Effect of Consulting on Microcredit Repayment in Korea
Oh, Yoonhae - 2016
This study examines the effect of a one-on-one outsourced pre-lending consulting service on the repayment behavior of microcredit borrowers in Korea with administrative data from the Smile Microcredit Bank. A random change in the cut-off loan amount for mandatory consulting is utilized as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992639
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What Determines Saving Rate in Korea? : The Role of Demography
Kwack, Sung Yeung; Lee, Young Sun - 2021
dependency ratios have negative effects on the saving rate, suggesting that the age structure of the population has impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221905
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Observable and Unobservable Household Sharing Rules : Evidence from Young Couples' Pocket Money
Lee, Jungmin - 2021
The leading evidence against the unitary household models is that who gets what is significantly dependent upon who earns how much. However, it is difficult to pin down the causal effect of relative earnings on intra-household resource allocation because households jointly decide both labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319111