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Effectiveness of Capital Restrictions: Do Regional and Income Differences Matter?

Gochoco-Bautista, Maria Socorro; Francisco, Ruth H. - 2011

This study examines the differences in the effectiveness of de jure capital restrictions across economies in different regions (Asia versus non-Asia) and with varying income levels. It uses a panel of 45 economies over the period 1995– 2007. The results show that differences in regional and...

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Asia's Changing Role in World Trade: Prospects for South - South Trade Growth to 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - 2011

from the North Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade, and boosting South–South trade. How will trade … of the world? In particular, what can be expected of developing Asia's intraregional trade and its trade with other … developing country regions? This paper addresses these questions by projecting a core baseline for the world economy from 2004 to …

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South-South Economic Linkages: An Overview

Jha, Shikha; McCawley, Peter - 2011

underpinned will contribute to growth across the developing world. Governments in developing countries of the Asia and Pacific …

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Assessing Factors Affecting M&As versus Greenfield FDI in Emerging Countries

Byun, Hyung-Suk; Lee, Hyun-Hoon; Park, Cyn-Young - 2012

A host of external (global and regional) and internal (country-specific) factors affect Multinational Enterprises' Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) decisions. Differentiating the two entry modes of FDI (mergers and acquisitions [M&A] and Greenfield investment), this paper aims to empirically...

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Operationalizing Experience: Donor Approaches to Service Delivery in Fragile States

DiCaprio, Alisa - 2013

This study explores the different approaches to service delivery in fragile states by surveying donors' own evaluations of their existing fragile states policies. Because there is limited understanding of what works in risky environments, monitoring and evaluation are critical components of...

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Nahrungssicherheit und Agrarspekulation: Was ist politisch zu tun?

Pies, Ingo; Prehn, Sören; Glauben, Thomas; Will, … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 2, pp. 103-109

Index-basierte Termingeschäfte auf dem Nahrungsmittelmarkt werden kritisiert, weil sie für rasante Preissteigerungen und Hungerrevolten verantwortlich gemacht werden. Die Autoren haben die Literatur zum Nahrungsmittelmarkt ausgewertet und die realwirtschaftlichen Ursachen für die...

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Quantitative, Non-Experimental Approaches to the Microeconomic Evaluation of Public Policy Measures - A Survey

Keilbach, Max - 2005

The objective of evaluating public policy measures is to assess its implications and thus to obtain a measure for weather the respective program has been successful. In this paper, we consider and classify microeconomic and microeconometric approaches to measuring this success. To do so, the...

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The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Self-Employed Entrepreneurship: an International Analysis

Burke, Andrew; Fraser, Stuart - 2005

The importance of IPR regimes for large firm innovation is well documented but less is known about their impact on typically less innovative self-employed entrepreneurship. The paper sets out to estimate the net effect of the various elements that comprise an IPR regime including the political...

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Relationship Banking and Its Role in Corporate Governance

Nam, Sang-woo - 2004

Bank-based systems of corporate governance are certainly an alternative in many Asian economies. In spite of the great efforts directed to strengthening corporate governance along the Anglo- American model in recent years, the effectiveness of this model is far from being clear. Among other...

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R&D networks: Theory, empirics and policy implications

König, Michael D.; Liu, Xiaodong; Zenou, Yves - 2014

We study a structural model of R&D alliance networks in which firms jointly form R&D collaborations to lower their production costs while competing on the product market. We derive the Nash equilibrium of this game, provide a welfare analysis and determine the optimal R&D subsidy program that...

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