Documents et rapports
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Hayek, local information, and commanding heights : decentralizing state-owned enterprises in China (anglais)
Hayek (1945) argues that local information is key to understanding the efficiency of alternative economic systems and whether production should be centralized or decentralized. The Chinese experience of...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 122574 Date du document: 1 août 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Huang, Zhangkai,Ma, Guangrong,Li, Lixing,Xu, Lixin Colin
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R&D returns, spillovers, and firm incentives : evidence from China (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7191 Date du document: 1 février 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Goh, Chorching,Li, Wei,Xu, Lixin Colin
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The internet as a general-purpose technology : firm-level evidence from around the world (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7192 Date du document: 1 février 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Clarke, George R.,Qiang, Zhenwei,Xu, Lixin Colin
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Love, money, and old age support : does parental matchmaking matter ? (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7188 Date du document: 1 février 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Huang, Fali,Jin, Ginger Zhe,Xu, Lixin Colin
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Interactions among donors' aid allocations : evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold (anglais)
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...
Numéro du rapport: WPS7039 Date du document: 1 septembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knack, Stephen,Xu, Lixin Colin,Zou, Ben
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Market facilitation by local government and firm efficiency : evidence from China (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6688 Date du document: 1 novembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cull, Robert J.,Xu, Lixin Colin,Yang, Xi,Zhou, Li-An,Zhu, Tian
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Business environment, economic agglomeration and job creation around the world (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6706 Date du document: 1 novembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Clarke, George,Li, Yue,Xu, Lixin Colin
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Telecommunications externality on migration : evidence from Chinese Villages (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6644 Date du document: 1 octobre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lu, Yi,Xie, Huihua,Xu, Lixin Colin
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Government connections and financial constraints : evidence from a large representative sample of Chinese firms (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6352 Date du document: 1 février 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cull, Robert J.,Li, Wei,Sun, Bo,Xu, Lixin Colin
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The effects of business environments on development : surveying new firm-level evidence (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 81429 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Xu, Lixin Colin
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The effects of business environments on development : surveying new firm-level evidence (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5402 Date du document: 1 août 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Xu, Lixin Colin
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Transition 14 (7-9) (russe)
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...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 27280 Date du document: 1 janvier 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rajan, Raghuram Govind,Zingales, Luigi G.,Dollar, David R.,Hallward-Driemeier, Mary C.,Shi, Anqing,Wallsten, Scott,Wang, Shuilin,Xu, Lixin Colin,Halpern, Laszlo,Reznik, Bruce A.,Enthoven, Adolf J. H.,Zeng, Zhihua,Guriev, Sergei M.,Yudaeva, Ksenia,Ringold, Dena,Wood, Barry D.
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Improving city competitiveness through the investment climate: ranking 23 Chinese cities (chinois)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 30247 Date du document: 1 décembre 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dollar, David R.,Shi, Anqing,Wang, Shuilin,Xu, Lixin Colin
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Improving city competitiveness through the investment climate: ranking 23 Chinese cities (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 30247 Date du document: 1 décembre 2003 Auteur: Dollar, David R.,Shi, Anqing,Wang, Shuilin,Xu, Lixin Colin
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Transition 14 (7-9) (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 27280 Date du document: 1 septembre 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rajan, Raghuram Govind,Zingales, Luigi G.,Dollar, David R.,Hallward-Driemeier, Mary C.,Shi, Anqing,Wallsten, Scott,Wang, Shuilin,Xu, Lixin Colin,Halpern, Laszlo,Reznik, Bruce A.,Enthoven, Adolf J. H.,Zeng, Zhihua,Guriev, Sergei M.,Yudaeva, Ksenia,Ringold, Dena,Wood, Barry D.
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Finance and income inequality : test of alternative theories (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2984 Date du document: 31 mars 2003 Auteur: Clarke, George,Xu, Lixin Colin,Zou, Heng-Fu