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Intellectual property rights, quality of institutions, and foreign direct investment into developing Asia

Lee, Minsoo; Park, Donghyun - 2013

Developing Asian countries are strengthening their intellectual property rights (IPR) regime as they themselves become producers of intellectual property. At the same time, developing Asia has attracted large amounts of foreign direct investment (FDI) and this trend is expected to continue in...

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Sovereign risk, elections, and contagion

Li, Chi; Balding, Christopher; Lee, Minsoo - 2013

This paper aims to quantify the political risk effect and its different economic implications in normal and crisis situations through the proxy analysis of election and the sovereign bond spreads. Our study leads to three main findings. First, in normal economic situations, elections and...

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Realizing the potential of public-private partnerships to advance Asia's infrastructure development

Deep, Akash (ed.); Kim, Jung-Wook (ed.); Lee, Minsoo (ed.) - Asian Development Bank; Han gug gae bal yeon gu won - 2019

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Macroprudential policy frameworks in developing Asian economies

Lee, Minsoo; Gaspar, Raymond; Villaruel, Mai Lin C. - 2017

Over the last decade, developing Asia’s deeper global financial linkages have been accompanied by greater financial integration. As the region becomes more interconnected, a key priority is to ensure that the dynamic environment is supported by better coordinated and potentially consistent...

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Effects of temperature shocks on economic growth and welfare in Asia

Lee, Minsoo; Villaruel, Mai Lin; Gaspar, Raymond - 2016

Using the Burke, Hsiang, and Miguel (2015) framework, we examine the nonlinear response effect of economic growth to historic temperature and precipitation fluctuations. We confirm that aside from the significant effect of rising temperature on agricultural production, industrial production and...

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Natural disaster shocks and macroeconomic growth in Asia : evidence for typhoons and droughts

Alano, Emmanuel; Lee, Minsoo - 2016

Climate-related natural disaster shocks are expected to rise as the earth is getting warmer, which will adversely affect growth prospects globally. Current robust estimates of the effects of typhoons and droughts point to both short- and long-term declines in national incomes compared to...

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Impacts of sea level rise on economic growth in developing Asia

Asuncion, Ruben Carlo; Lee, Minsoo - 2017

Global sea level rise (SLR) variations have undeniably begun to make an impact on highly vulnerable economies. These impacts of SLR are a key component of the projected economic damage of climate change, an important input to climate change policies and adaptive measures. This paper considers...

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How growth deceleration in the People's Republic of China affects other Asian economies : an empirical analysis

Lee, Minsoo; Park, Donghyun; Ramayandi, Arief - 2016

Developing Asia has benefited greatly from the rise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), primarily through the trade channel. The PRC and its neighbors have collectively formed a regional production network, and the PRC is becoming an increasingly important source of final demand. Two...

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Enhancing bank supervision in Asia : lessons learned from the financial crisis

Zamorski, Michael J.; Lee, Minsoo - 2015

The global financial crisis underlined that sound and effective bank regulation is vital to financial stability … outbreak. The crisis reflected the failure of regulatory authorities to keep pace with financial innovation. Bank supervision … had been weak by any measure. Supervisors did not conduct regular onsite bank inspections or examinations of sufficient …

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Effectiveness of macroprudential policies in developing Asia : an empirical analysis

Lee, Minsoo; Asuncion, Ruben Carlo; Kim, Jungsuk - 2015

The global financial crisis highlighted the need for national bank supervisory authorities to improve surveillance …

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