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Fiscal Divergence and Business Cycle Synchronization: Irresponsibility is Idiosyncratic

Darvas, Zsolt; Rose, Andrew K; Szapáry, György - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Using a panel of 21 OECD countries and 40 years of annual data, we find that countries with similar government budget positions tend to have business cycles that fluctuate more closely. That is, fiscal convergence (in the form of persistently similar ratios of government surplus/deficit to GDP)...

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Network Dynamics and Knowledge Transfer in Virtual Organizations: Overcoming the Liability of Dispersion

Gandal, Neil; Stettner, Uriel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Product development within and across community-based and geographically dispersed virtual organizations is becoming an increasingly important mechanism through which individual knowledge holders create and disseminate knowledge in joint efforts to generate products. Without the benefits of...

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Peer Effects, Risk Pooling, and Status Seeking: What Explains Gift Spending Escalation in Rural China?

Chen, Xi; Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

pooling--based on a census-type primary household survey in three natural villages in rural China and on detailed household …

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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

In our model, workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either through formal agencies or through informal networks of contacts (word-of-mouth communication). From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate...

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Reform Without Losers: An Interpretation of China's Dual-Track Approach to Transition

Lau, Lawrence J; Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

worked in product and labour markets in China’s economic reform in practice. …

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One Third of the World's Growth and Inequality

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world … countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are …

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The Limits of Career Concerns in Federalism: Evidence from China

Persson, Petra; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Performance-based promotion schemes in administrative hierarchies have limitations. Chinese provincial leaders, despite facing strong career concerns, make different policy decisions depending on their career backgrounds. Provincial party secretaries who rose from low to high positions within...

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A DSGE Model of China

Dai, Li; Minford, Patrick; Zhou, Peng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We use available methods for testing macro models to evaluate a model of China over the period from Deng Xiaoping …

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Trade liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Khandelwal, Amit; Schott, Peter K.; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

If trade barriers are managed by inefficient institutions, trade liberalization can lead to greater-than-expected gains. We examine Chinese textile and clothing exports before and after the removal of externally imposed quotas. Both the surge in export volumes and the decline in prices after the...

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US Special Safeguard on Imports of Tires from China: Imposing Pain for Little Gain

Charnovitz, Steve; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

In 2009, the United States imposed additional tariffs for a three-year period on imports of automotive tires from China … under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in … in which an accession protocol was used successfully as a defense; and the first that China lost as a complaining party …

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