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Patrick, Hugh; Ito, Takatoshi - 1999

Introduction: A mere decade ago Japan’s financial system, and especially its banking system, was not only the largest … country. Today presents a completely different picture. Japan’s financial system is weak and in disarray. Banks no longer rank … among the world’s top ten, and their credit ratings have declined dramatically. Two of Japan’s top 21 banks have already …

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Media Coverage & Charitable Giving After the 2004 Tsunami

Brown, Philip; Minty, Jessica - 2006

Media coverage of humanitarian crises is widely believed to influence charitable giving, yet this assertion has received little empirical scrutiny. Using Internet donations after the 2004 tsunami as a case study, we show that media coverage of disasters has a dramatic impact on donations to...

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Monetary integration in East Asia: Why does it take so long?

Krawczyk, Mariusz K. - 2009

The launch of the economic and monetary union in Europe and the 1997 financial crisis that underscored the disadvantages of currently employed exchange rate regimes raised questions about the feasibility of a similar monetary unification project for East Asia. Being one of the most dynamically...

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An Investigation of Firm-Level R&D Capabilities in East Asia

Jefferson, Gary H.; Kaifeng, Zhong - 2002

This paper uses a survey of 1,826 firms distributed over ten East Asian metropolitan areas – Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Seoul, and five Chinese cities – to investigate the sources of firm-level R&D capabilities. The analysis identifies the impact of 23 survey variables, classified by...

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FDI in crisis and recovery: lessons from the 1997/98 Asian crisis

Athukorala, Prema-Chandra - 2003

Is foreign direct investment (FDI) more resilient at the onset of an economic crisis and the subsequent economic collapse in a given host country compared to other forms of foreign capital inflows? Are affiliates of multinational enterprises in a crisis-hit country better equipped to withstand a...

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Long-Run Simulations With GTAP: Illustrative Results from APEC Trade Liberalisation

Walmsley, Terrie - 1998

In static applied general equilibrium models, the exogenous/endogenous split between variables (or closure) is used to infer the time frame over which the effects of a shock are simulated. This paper introduces a long-run closure for the GTAP model (Hertel and Tsigas, 1997) and uses this closure...

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14.54 International Trade, Fall 2005

Lorenzoni, Guido - 2005

Introduction to the theory of international trade and finance with applications to current policy issues. From the course home page: Course Description The course will help us understand what determines the flow of goods across countries, i.e. international trade, and what determines the flow of...

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World Biofuels Study

Alfstad,T. - 2009

This report forms part of a project entitled 'World Biofuels Study'. The objective is to study world biofuel markets and to examine the possible contribution that biofuel imports could make to help meet the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA)....

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Prosperity Game: Advanced Manufacturing Day, May 17, 1994

Berman, M. - 2009

Prosperity Games are an outgrowth and adaptation of move/countermove and seminar War Games. Prosperity Games are simulations that explore complex issues in a variety of areas including economics, politics, sociology, environment, education and research. These issues can be examined from a...

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The Flat Tax: An Examination of the Baltic States

Greenberg, Deena - 2009

The idea of a flat tax, a tax levied at a single rate, has become an increasingly discussed and implemented fiscal strategy across Europe and the rest of the world. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania adopted flat tax systems in 1994 and 1995, making them the first modern countries to adopt flat...

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