International Production Networks in Machinery Industries: Structure and Its Evolution [PDF]
This paper intensively employs annual international trade statistics obtained from the UN Comtrade and examines to what degree East Asian countries have participated in global production networks in comparison with countries in other regions and whether ...
Ayako OBASHI, Fukunari KIMURA
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Managing East Asia's macroeconomic volatility [PDF]
East Asia has experienced a dramatic decrease in output growth volatility over the past 20 years. This is good news, as output growth volatility affects poor households because of coping strategies that have long-term, harmful consequences, and the ...
Olaberria, Eduardo, Rigolini, Jamele
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International Financial Integration and Consumption Risk Sharing [PDF]
This paper tests the importance of international financial assets and liabilities for consumption risk sharing in a general framework which allows for separate effects of equity and debt holdings as well as country-specific sensitivity to aggregate risk.
Aidan Corcoran
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Contractual savings or stock market development - Which leads? [PDF]
The authors study the relationship between the development of contractual savings (assets of pension funds, and life insurance companies) and non-life insurance, and, the development of stock markets (market capitalization and value traded).
Catalan, Mario +2 more
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"Product Complexity and Economic Development" [PDF]
We rank 5,107 products and 124 countries according to the Hidalgo and Hausmann (2009) measures of complexity. We find that: (1) the most complex products are in machinery, chemicals, and metals, while the least complex products are raw materials and ...
Arnelyn Abdon +3 more
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On the security of software-defined next-generation cellular networks [PDF]
, 2016 In the recent years, mobile cellular networks are ndergoing fundamental changes and many established concepts are being revisited. Future 5G network architectures will be designed to employ a wide range of new and emerging technologies such as Software ...
Alzahrani, Bander +3 more
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Tax Collection Costs, Tax Evasion and Optimal Interest Rates [PDF]
In this paper, I investigate to what extent the cross-country variation in nominal interest rates can be explained as being due to governments' optimal response to economic conditions such as tax collection costs, tax evasion and government consumption ...
Pinar Yesin
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The Evolution of Comparative Advantage: Measurement and Welfare Implications [PDF]
Using an industry-level dataset of production and trade spanning 75 countries and 5 decades, and a fully speciÞed multi-sector Ricardian model, we estimate productivities at sector level and examine how they evolve over time in both developed and ...
Andrei A. Levchenko, Jing Zhang
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National Innovation System in the Era of Liberalization: Implications for Science and Technology Policy for Developing Economies [PDF]
The national system of innovations in the recent phase of globalization has undergone dramatic structural transformation. Innovations entails organizational as well as changes in the rules of the game.
Singh, Baldev, Singh, Lakhwinder
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Writing professional discourse: the challenges faced by Malaysian engineers [PDF]
, 2012 In Malaysia, English is taught and used as a second language. Nevertheless, English has become a requirement for employment and career advancement.
Sarjit Singh, Manvender Kaur +1 more
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