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Cuando Oriente llegó a América: Contribuciones de inmigrantes chinos, japoneses y coreanos

Morimoto, Amelia; Araki, Raúl; Freitas, Sônia Maria de; … - Inter-American Development Bank

Oriente no es una latitud geográfica y culturalmente lejana. Es una presencia viva en América Latina y el Caribe. Llegó en los baúles de los culíes chinos que en el siglo XIX reemplazaron a la mano de obra esclava de los negros y en las esperanzas de los que huían de revueltas políticas...

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Short Term Equity Returns of Chinese IPOs, 1999 to 2004

Li, Larry; Fowler, John; Naughton, Tony - In: Journal of Emerging Market Finance 7 (2008) 2, pp. 197-214

Our study of 531 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) on the two Chinese Stock Exchanges during the period 1999 to 2004 indicates initial returns to investors of approximately 114.04 per cent and these earnings were sustained through the first month of trading. High initial returns on IPOs are most...

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The Weak-form Efficiency of Chinese Stock Markets

Lim, Kian-Ping; Habibullah, Muzafar Shah; Hinich, Melvin J. - In: Journal of Emerging Market Finance 8 (2009) 2, pp. 133-163

Motivated by the shortcomings of earlier Chinese efficiency studies, the present paper re-examines the weak-form efficiency of Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. Specifically, our adopted methodologies mitigate the confounding effect of thin trading on return autocorrelation, detect both...

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The Location Substitution Effect: Does it Apply for China?

Banik, Nilanjan; Das, Khanindra Ch. - In: Global Business Review 15 (2014) 1, pp. 59-75

The notion that China is the factory of the world is now changing. Factories in China are shifting their production … base to neighbouring Asia, primarily because of higher input costs in China, a volatile Chinese exchange rate and … protectionist measures targeted against Chinese exports. In this article, we examine the location substitution effect for China …

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China’s Monetary Policy and Commodity Prices

Hammoudeh, Shawkat; Nguyen, Duc Khuong; Sousa, Ricardo M. - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

This paper examines the effects of the monetary policy of China on commodity prices. Using a Bayesian Structural VAR …

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Rumor Clarification and Stock Returns: Do Bull Markets Behave Differently from Bear Markets?

Yang, Xiaolan; Luo, Yongli - In: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 50 (2014) 1, pp. 197-209

This paper analyzes the effects of official rumor clarification on Chinese stock returns under different market conditions. The results show that the average cumulative abnormal return after the clarification event is significantly positive in a bull market, and significantly negative in a bear...

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Changing Gender Preference in China Today: Implications for the Sex Ratio

Chi, Zhou; Dong, Zhou Xu; Lei, Wang Xiao; Jun, Zheng Wei; … - In: Indian Journal of Gender Studies 20 (2013) 1, pp. 51-68

There is growing evidence in China that son preference is on the decline. But sex ratios at birth, despite a recent … research to explore current attitudes towards gender preference amongst people of reproductive age in China today, with a view …

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CHINESE DIRECT INVESTMENT IN AFRICA: A STATE STRATEGY ?

PAIRAULT, Thierry - In: Region et Developpement 37 (2013), pp. 259-284

The purpose of this paper is to review available statistical and in-formational databases in order to understand the actual importance of Chinese direct investment in Africa and to infer its strategic significance. Hence, I shall successively present three main data and information sources, then...

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Winners and Losers from a Commodities-for-Manufactures Trade Boom

Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, Joao Paulo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much …

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The Impact of Yuan Internationalization on the Euro-Dollar Exchange Rate

Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Forouheshfar, Yeganeh - HAL - 2013

euro-dollar rate, whatever the exchange-rate regime of China. Moving to a dynamic, stockflow framework, we show that the …

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