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Outsourcing, Offshoring and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-level Data for Emerging Economies
Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
It is striking that by far the lion's share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation...
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Explaining the Migration of Stocks from Exchanges in Emerging Economies to International Centres
Claessens, Stijn; Klingebiel, Daniela; Schmukler, Sergio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We study the determinants of stock market development and the growing migration of capital raising, listing and trading activity to international exchanges. Economies with higher income per capita, sounder macro policies, more efficient legal systems with better shareholder protection, and more...
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Finance and Growth: When Does Credit Really Matter?
Coricelli, Fabrizio; Roland, Isabelle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
The paper provides a simple theory and empirical evidence on the asymmetric effect of credit markets on output decline and output growth. When credit markets are underdeveloped and enterprise activity is financed outside the banking sector, exogenous shocks may induce a break-up of both credit...
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A New Index of Currency Mismatch and Systemic Risk
Rancière, Romain; Tornell, Aaron; Vamvakidis, Athanasios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper constructs a new measure of currency mismatch in the banking sector that controls for bank lending to unhedged borrowers. This measure explicitly takes into account the indirect exchange rate risk that banks undertake when they lend to borrowers that will not be able to repay in the...
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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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