This paper uses a new data set of 12,000 firms in China to estimate the returns to research and development investment and its spillover effects, and investigates how the returns to research and development...
This paper uses firm-level data to assess whether telecommunication services are general-purpose technologies (technologies that benefit a large segment of the economy and have long-lasting effect). It...
Parental involvement in matchmaking may distort the choice of spouse because parents are willing to substitute love for market and household production, which are more sharable between parents and their...
This study investigates the effects of the World Bank's exogenously-determined income threshold for eligibility for concessionary International Development Association (IDA) loans on the allocations of...
This paper uses data from a large survey of Chinese firms to investigate whether local government efforts to facilitate market development improve firm efficiency. Both government provision of information...
Based on a comprehensive worldwide firm survey, this paper looks at how the business environment and economic agglomeration affect job creation, holding constant conventional determinants of firm growth...
This paper uses a unique natural experiment in Chinese villages to investigate whether access to telecommunications-- in particular, landline phones -- increases the likelihood of outmigration. By using...
This paper examines the role of firms' government connections, defined by government intervention in the appointments of Chief Executive Officers and the status of state ownership, in determining the severity...
In the past decade, the World Bank has promoted improving business environments as a key strategy for development, which has led to a significant effort in collecting surveys of the investment climate...
In the past decade, the World Bank has promoted improving business environments as a key strategy for development, which has resulted in a significant amount of investment in collecting firm-level investment...
Рагхурам Раджан, Луиджи Зингалес: "Путь к процветанию: спасение капитализма от капиталистов". Дейвид Доллар, Мери Холлвар-Драймеир, Альцин Ши, Скотт Уолстен, Шуйлинь Ван, Лисинь Колин Сюй: "Инвестиционный...
During the last decade, major developing countries including China have begun to integrate much more with the global economy. The countries that are aggressively integrating have grown significantly faster...
During the last decade, major developing countries including China have begun to integrate much more with the global economy. The countries that are aggressively integrating have grown significantly faster...
The road to prosperity : saving capitalism from capitalists; by Raghuram G. Rajan, and Luigi Zingales. Investment climate in China : a tale of five cities; by David Dollar, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Anqing...
Although theoretical models make distinct predictions about the relationship between financial sector development and income inequality, little empirical research has been conducted to compare their relative...