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Exiting from Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Role of Fiscal Policies and Fiscal Institutions
Deléchat, Corinne - 2016
This paper studies the role of fiscal policies and institutions in building resilience in sub-Saharan African countries during 1990-2013, with specific emphasis on a group of twenty-six countries that were deemed fragile in the 1990s. As the drivers of fragility and resilience are closely...
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Productivity and Product Markets in Korea : Evidence from Advanced Economies
Swiston, Andrew J.; Tam, Stella - 2022
This paper constructs an industry-level dataset of productivity across advanced economies, showing that Korea’s labor productivity and total factor productivity levels are below the median of other advanced economies. We identify sizable industry-level productivity gaps in Korea with respect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014236304
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Global Risks and Collective Action Failures : What Can the International Community Do?
Otker-Robe, Inci - 2014
What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They are all examples of global risks that can cross geographical and generational boundaries and whose mismanagement can reverse gains in development and jeopardize the well-being of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043705
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Why U.S. Immigration Matters for the Global Advancement of Science
Agarwal, Ruchir; Ganguli, Ina; Gaule, Patrick; Smith, Geoff - 2021
This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge network—representing 20-33% of the frontier knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226450
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Taxation Windfall Internationalization Korean Capital Markets
International Monetary Fund - 1990
The paper describes the evolution of the corporate stock and bond markets in Korea and the Government’s role in this evolution and its policy with regard to internationalization of the capital market. The paper analyzes problems encountered in gradually opening the Korean capital market to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395771
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The Taxation of the Windfall from Internationalization of the Korean Capital Market
Mahler, Walter - 2012
The paper describes the evolution of the corporate stock and bond markets in Korea and the Government's role in this evolution and its policy with regard to internationalization of the capital market. The paper analyzes problems encountered in gradually opening the Korean capital market to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755583
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Should Korea worry about a permanently weak yen?
Ree, Jack Joo K.; Hong, Gee Hee; Choi, Seoeun - 2015
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How Does Industrialization Affect the Structure of International Trade? : The Japanese Experience in the Pacific Basin, 1975-85
Shirai, Sayuri - 1994
also uses actual trade data between Japan and Indonesia and between Japan and Korea …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398066
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Korea's Challenges Ahead-Lessons from Japan's Experience
Zoli, Edda - 2017
This paper draws out the parallels between Korea and Japan in terms of demographics, potential growth, balance sheets …, asset prices and inflation. Korea's demographic trends seem to track Japan's with a lag of about 20 years. Low productivity … reforms. While Korea's corporate balance sheets are stronger than Japan's in the early 1990s, Korea needs to progress with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962151
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COVID-19 and SME failures
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; … - 2020
We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391969