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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"financial liberalization"”.
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State based financial liberalization
… have increased the role of markets in their financial systems. Using newly collected information on the educational backgrounds of Central Bankers, I demonstrate that the beliefs of state officials about the proper role of markets in the financial system influence the extent to which state's …
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Futures Contracts, Stabilization, and Financial Liberalization in Brazil: Three Essays
"A discussion of the role of financial liberalization on income distribution follows. Because of the distortions created by governmental interfering, the liberalizing of the financial sector comes to be viewed as a ""quick fix"" to the distortions created by the government-controlled system. The …
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Financial Liberalization, Competition and Sound Banking: Theoretical and Empirical Essays
Previous studies seem to agree that increased competition would cause riskier banking behavior. This dissertation shows that when competition intensifies, banks have greater incentives for screening loan applicants, and thus loan quality may improve. In addition, competition fosters banks to rely …
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Essays on financial liberalization, labor market pooling, and intermetropolitan wage differentials
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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The Challenges of China's Economic Reform: State Enterprise Reform and Financial Liberalization
… China's state-owned enterprise reform and financial reform in the last two decades. I characterize the progress of China's state-owned enterprises reform in two areas: privatization of small SOEs and mass layoffs. I argue that privatization rests on the political economy of China. I also …
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Financial liberalization and industry structure nexus: an investigation using dynamic heterogeneous panels from Malawian data
… of this relationship show that a well-developed financial system is important for economic growth. However, instead of concentrating on the aggregated perspectives of this relationship, this research investigates whether financial development influences the level of competition in the real …
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Financial liberalization and dynamics of firm-level financing and investment decisions in the Southeast Asian countries
… financing decisions during the period of financial liberalization by considering the debt and equity financing decisions of a set of non-financial firms. The empirical results show that firms in Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Korea have relatively faster speed of adjustment than other …
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The effect of financial liberalization on capital accumulation, endogenous growth, and interindustry wage differentials: The case of Taiwan
… of the thesis is to investigate the link between financial policy and economic growth by focusing on the link between financial intermediation and capital accumulation. The investigation strategy is to examine the effect of recent reform in financial markets in Taiwan on its industrial growth as …
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"""Little Manhattan"" in the Shadow of Global Prescriptions: The Spatial and Social Restructuring of the Banking Sector in Istanbul in the Era of Financial Liberalization"
… world city, and the economic development agenda, financial liberalization, were strikingly articulated as two predominant development projects in the 1990s. My dissertation is an attempt to examine the process of globalization by focusing on the restructuring of the banking sector in Istanbul …
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Financial innovations, inflation and the futures market for foreign exchange in Brazil
… stabilization attempts has induced a process of financial liberalization and the discussion of alternative measures to achieve stability. The internationalization of the economy with significative financial liberalization has become a major policy issue and the second essay addresses the …
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Tax Revenue and Financial Development: Theory and Evidence
… In the first chapter I examine the role of the financial sector, specifically banks, as a mechanism for tax enforcement and collection. I explore the hypothesis that the public sector, measured by the tax-to-GDP ratio, co-emerges with the banking sector, measured by deposits-to-GDP, during the …
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Essays on Production Structure and Economic Integration
… of economies and the process of trade- and financial liberalization. In the first chapter I examine the role of trade and external deficits in explaining the patterns of structural change in twenty developed and developing economies between 1965 and 2000. First, for each country, I break …
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Abertura externa e liberalização financeira: impactos sobre crescimento e distribuição no Brasil dos anos 90
… specifically, it will be discussed how trade and financial liberalization caused an increasing financial fragility and economic vulnerability in Brazil, posing an external constraint to economic growth during the last decade and increasing the probability of balance of payment crisis. The …
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Essays on Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: Role of Capital Inflow, Financial Intermediaries and the Dynamics of Contagion
… of this dissertation examines the 1997 Asian financial crisis. It is shown that existing literature on currency crises fail to provide any early warning indicators that would have predicted the across-the-board distress seen in the Asian economies. An alternative approach to tracking financial …
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Bretton Woods and Financial Liberation
… system (1945-1971) and the evolution of the financial liberalization that characterized the last quarter of the 20th century and resulted in the contemporary international monetary system remain the most important developments in the international monetary system over the last century. What …
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Transmission Linked to Structural Vulnerability: How Low-Income Countries Endured the Great Recession
<p>The implosion of the 2008 financial crisis ignited fears that integration would transmit the crisis’ effects throughout the global system. Examining two countries, Bangladesh and Zambia, this project shows that low-income countries with relatively little integration also saw negative impacts. …
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Essays on Imperfections in Money and Capital Markets
… The second essay investigates the impact of financial liberalization on consumption and GDP growth volatility and assess why such impact may differ across countries. We have strong evidence that liberalization is associated with lower consumption growth and output growth volatility. Our …
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A system dynamics perspective on the build-up to the 1997 South Korean financial crisis
Financial panics and crashes have become an item of familiarity to many nations around the world over more than several centuries. If history has taught us nothing else, it has taught us that we can learn from the past with the aim of improving the future. In 1997 a chain of events was set off in …
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Essays on institutions and economic development
… investigates the relationship between trade and financial development. I thus present a simple model of trade in the presence of factor market imperfections. I consider an economy in which entrepreneurs undertake projects, and in doing so, contribute to the development of financial institutions. …
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