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Zheng, Siqi - 2014

Within an open system of cities, compensating differentials theory predicts that local real estate prices will be higher in cities with higher quality non-market local public goods. In this case, more polluted cities will feature lower home prices. A city's air pollution levels depend on...

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Underwriters and the Broken Chinese Wall : Institutional Holdings and Post-IPO Securities Litigation

Barabanov, Sergey - 2014

We examine whether underwriters have an information advantage over other institutional investors in new public companies. We focus our attention on a sample of publicly traded firms that have become the target of an IPO-related securities class action lawsuit filed under Section 11 of the 1933...

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Information from Relationship Lending : Evidence from Loan Defaults in China

Chang, Chun - 2014

Using a proprietary database from a large Chinese state-owned bank, we examine whether information evolved from banking relationships predicts commercial loan default by industrial firms. We find that the bank's relationship information is significantly linked to the incidence of default, and...

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Understanding effective teaching practices in Chinese classrooms : evidence from a pilot study of primary and junior secondary schools in Guangdong, China

Coflan, Andrew; Ragatz, Andrew B.; Hasan, Amer; Pan, Yilin - 2018

This study documents the results of a pilot study jointly undertaken by the World Bank and the Guangdong Department of Education to assess teaching practices in public primary and junior secondary schools using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System tool. The tool was used to conduct classroom...

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Paris climate agreement and the global economy : winners and losers

Mani, Muthukumara S.; Hussein, Zekarias; Narayanan, Badri; … - 2018

China, the United States, and India, decided on a more gradual phasing out extending beyond 2030. This paper estimates the … welfare loss of about 1.5 percent. Some of the major emitters, such as China and India, will experience minimal impacts to …

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Trade linkages between the belt and road economies

Boffa, Mauro - 2018

This paper studies the production and trade linkages between a selected group of economies belonging to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). After defining a group of Belt and Road Economies, the paper uses three standard trade databases to analyze trade and production linkages among these...

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The impact of positive agricultural income shocks on rural Chinese households

Leight, Jessica - 2018

In the post-collectivization period, rural Chinese households were required to sell part of their grain output to the state at a below-market price; however, increases in this quota price beginning in 1993 generated substantial positive income shocks. These income shocks also varied...

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Exposure of belt and road economies to China trade shocks

Bastos, Paulo - 2018

. Between 1995 and 2015, the magnitude of China's demand shocks was larger than that of its competition shocks. However …The Belt and Road Initiative seeks to deepen China's international integration by improving infrastructure and … detailed bilateral trade data for 1995-2015 to assess the degree of exposure of Belt and Road economies to China trade shocks …

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Entrepreneurship in China and Russia Compared

Djankov, Simeon - 2006

We compare the results from a survey of 900 entrepreneurs in China and Russia. Compared to a sample of 1,000 non …

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Strengthening China's Technological Capability

Yusuf, Shahid - 2016

China is increasing its outlay on research and development and seeking to build an innovation system that will deliver … quick results not just in absorbing technology but also in pushing the technological envelope. China's spending on Ramp …;D rose from 1.1 percent of GDP in 2000 to 1.3 percent of GDP in 2005. On a purchasing power parity basis, China's research …

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