The 1997 Asian financial crisis inflicted serious economic damages to many Asian countries. However, China was conspicuously avoided being severely attacked by this crisis. This study compares the growth patterns of foreign short-term debt, the foreign debt structure and short-term foreign...

One of the puzzling phenomena in the emerging financial market was that financial crises often took place in middle-income countries rather than in low-income countries. This study empirically studies the financial crises between 1993 and 2003 and finds that the over-reliance on foreign debt,...

This paper studies financial behaviors of households in China's Beijing urban area. Demographic and psychometrical data were collected through questionnaire surveys and analyzed by logistic regression and Tobit regression methods. Several important factors which affect the willingness of the...

Empirical explorations of the growth and aggregate productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous (countervailing signs) results with little robustness. This paper, utilizing panel data for South African manufacturing over the 1970–2000 period, and a range of 19...