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Gradual Financial Liberalization, Fdi, and Domestic Investment: Evidence From China's Panel Data

He, Qichun - In: Journal of Developing Areas 46 (2012) 1, pp. 1-15

financial deregulation. Utilizing the Chinese experience and its panel data, instrumenting FDI with weather indicators (validity …

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Public expenditure, private investment and income: evidence in indian states

Mallick, Jagannath - In: Journal of Developing Areas 47 (2013) 1, pp. 181-205

The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act 2003 was introduced in India in order to reduce revenue deficit by curtailing revenue expenditure. This paper examines the impact of public expenditure by type and nature on the income by constructing new data on combined capital...

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Trade Reform, Job Quality And Wages Of The Working Poor In Egypt:Evidence From Manufacturing Panel Data

Said, Mona - In: Journal of Developing Areas 46 (2012) 2, pp. 159-183

using panel and quantile regression methods and utilizing newly available labor survey data, merged with trade variables …

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The impact of governance on economic growth in Africa

Fayissa, Bichaka; Nsiah, Christian - In: Journal of Developing Areas 47 (2013) 1, pp. 91-108

Sub-Sahara African countries have had a checkered past when it comes to good governance and institutions. Increasingly, economists and policy makers are recognizing the importance of governance and institutions for economic growth and development. The New Partnership for Africa’s Development...

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What drives the association between health and portfolio choice?

Kronenberg, C.; van Kippersluis, H.; Rohde, K.I.M. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2014

There is a persistent association between health and portfolio choice, but hardly anything is known about the underlying sources of heterogeneity: what makes healthier individuals hold more risky assets? This paper uses rich Dutch longitudinal data to take into account and explain unobserved...

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The Effect of Economic Insecurity on Mental Health: Recent Evidence from Australian Panel Data

Rohde, Nicholas; Tang, Kam Ki; Osberg, Lars; Rao, D.S. … - Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, … - 2014

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The Effect of Measurement Error in the Sharp Regression Discontinuity Design

Yanagi, Takahide - Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University - 2014

, this error causes severe identification bias for the average treatment effect given the “true” forcing variable at the … discontinuity point. The bias is critical in the sense that even if there is a significant causal effect, researchers are misled to … simulations reveal the severity of the identification bias caused by the measurement error and demonstrate that our approximate …

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Global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of business software piracy: benchmarking IPRs harmonization

Simplice, Simplice Anutechia Asongu; Antonio, Antonio … - Association of African Young Economists - AAYE - 2014

) protection worldwide. Our empirical exercise is based on 15 different panel regressions, which together consists of 99 countries … characteristics of software piracy. The absence of convergence (in absolute and conditional terms) for the World panel indicates that …

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DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: DOES DEMOCRACY MATTER? (DETERMINANTY PRIAMYCH ZAHRANIČNÝCH INVESTÍCIÍ: AKÝ JE VÝZNAM DEMOKRACIE?)

Farazmand, Hasan; Moradi, Mahvash - In: Medzinarodne vztahy (Journal of International Relations) 12 (2014) 4, pp. 318-333

Having access to foreign investment allows a country to acquire opportunities that otherwise could not be had. Many factors are important for attracting investment in developing countries, but there has been only a limited consensus on which factors play an unambiguous role. Using different...

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Reviving demand-pull perspectives: The effect of demand uncertainty and stagnancy on R&D strategy

García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; Savona, Maria - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2014

This paper looks at the effects of demand uncertainty and stagnancy on firms’ decisions to engage in R&D activities and the amount of financial effort devoted to such activities. In so doing, the paper makes a number of contributions to the innovation literature: first, it adds to the recently...

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