Documents et rapports
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Trade Credit : Theory and Evidence for Emerging Economies and Developing Countries (anglais)
Trade credit remains an important source of finance for firms in developing countries and many firms in developed countries, especially those that are young, small, or informationally opaque for other...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10468 Date du document: 5 juin 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cull,Robert J.,Goh,Chorching,Xu,Lixin
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Firm Resources, Strategies, and Survival and Growth during COVID-19: Evidence from Two-Wave Global Surveys (anglais)
This study examines how firms have made strategic choices and performed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the organizational resources and strategic change literature, it uses World Bank Enterprise...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9997 Date du document: 5 avril 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fang,Sheng,Goh,Chorching,Li,Shaomin,Xu,Lixin
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Interest Bearing Notes (April 2022) (anglais)
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 171137 Date du document: 31 mars 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruhn,Miriam,Cull,Robert J.,Gine,Xavier,Xu,Lixin
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Bureaucrats, Tournament Competition, and Performance Manipulation : Evidence from Chinese Cities (anglais)
Tournament competition is viewed as motivating bureaucrats in promoting growth. This paper examines how this incentive leads to economic performance manipulation. Using data from Chinese cities, the analysis...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9938 Date du document: 15 février 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Xu,Gang,Xu,Lixin,Si,Ruichao
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Interest Bearing Notes (October 2021) (anglais)
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 165778 Date du document: 1 octobre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruhn,Miriam,Cull,Robert J.,Zia,Bilal Husnain,Xu,Lixin
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Interest Bearing Notes (August 2021) (anglais)
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 164286 Date du document: 31 août 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruhn,Miriam,Cull,Robert J.,Xu,Lixin,Zia,Bilal Husnain
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Warlords, State Failures, and the Rise of Communism in China (anglais)
This paper documents that the spread of communism in China was partly caused by state failures in the early 20th century. It finds that famines became more frequent after China fell into warlord fragmentation...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9754 Date du document: 23 août 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Huang,Zhangkai,Miao,Meng,Shao,Yi,Xu,Lixin
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Interest Bearing Notes (June 2021) (anglais)
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 161242 Date du document: 1 juin 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruhn,Miriam,Cull,Bob,Xu,Lixin,Zia,Bilal Husnain
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Organizational Resources, Country Institutions, and National Culture behind Firm Survival and Growth during COVID-19 (anglais)
This paper provides one of the first comprehensive and most updated studies on the effects of firms’ organizational resources, country institutions, and national culture on the survival and growth of private...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9633 Date du document: 15 avril 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Liu,Yu,Peng,Mike W.,Wei,Zuobao,Xu,Jian,Xu,Lixin
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Interest Bearing Notes (April 2021) (anglais)
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 158768 Date du document: 1 avril 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruhn,Miriam,Cull,Robert J.,Xu,Lixin,Zia,Bilal Husnain
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Interest Bearing Notes (February 2021) (anglais)
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 157020 Date du document: 1 février 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruhn,Miriam,Cull, Bob,Xu,Lixin
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Interest Bearing Notes (December 2020) (anglais)
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 155439 Date du document: 31 décembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruhn,Miriam,Cull, Bob,Xu,Lixin,Zia,Bilal Husnain
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The Interplay of Policy, Institutions, and Culture in the Time of Covid-19 (anglais)
Leveraging data in 147 countries from the Johns Hopkins University, the World Bank, and other sources, we investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic spread and how the mortality rates are associated with preexisting...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9470 Date du document: 6 novembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fang,Sheng,Peng,Mike W.,Xu,Lixin,Yi,Yuanyuan
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Credit Constraints and Fraud Victimization : Evidence from a Representative Chinese Household Survey (anglais)
Using a novel, nationally representative data set on fraud victimization, this paper examines the impact of credit constraints on fraud victimization and potential underlying mechanisms in Chinese urban...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9460 Date du document: 27 octobre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gao,Nan,Ma,Yuanyuan,Xu,Lixin
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Female Business Leaders, Business and Cultural Environment, and Productivity around the World (anglais)
Studies of female business leaders and economic performance are rarely conducted with worldwide observational data, and with considerations on the underlying cultural, institutional, and business environment...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9275 Date du document: 11 juin 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fang,Sheng,Goh,Chorching,Roberts,Mark,Xu,Lixin,Zeufack,Albert G.
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The Transformative Effects of Privatization in China : A Natural Experiment Based on Politician Career Concern (anglais)
The serious implications of privatizing state-owned enterprises for politicians, managers, and investors make such decisions highly contingent on firm characteristics and past performance, complicating...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9261 Date du document: 28 mai 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Huang,Zhangkai,Liu,Jinyu,Ma,Guangrong,Xu,Lixin
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Business Environment and Dual-Track Private Sector Development : China's Experience in Two Crucial Decades (anglais)
A void in the literature on the business environment is how it evolves over time. Focusing on China during its crucial two decades of transition (from the early 1990s to the early 2010s), this paper documents...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9161 Date du document: 25 février 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Long,Cheryl Xiaoning,Xu,Lixin,Yang,Jin
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Heterogeneous Effects of the de jure and de facto Business Environment : Findings from Multiple Data Sets on the Business Environment (anglais)
Using multiple sources of national- and firm-level data around the world, this paper investigates how the effects of the business environment depend on whether the measure is de jure or de facto, and how...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9115 Date du document: 21 janvier 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Zhenwei Qiang,Christine,Wang,He,Xu,Lixin
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Foreign Direct Investment and Female Entrepreneurship (anglais)
Using World Bank Enterprise Survey data around the world, this paper examines how foreign direct investment is associated with female entrepreneurship (that is, a firm being managed and at least partly...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9083 Date du document: 16 décembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fang,Sheng,Shamseldin,Heba M.M.,Xu,Lixin
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Property Rights, Political Connections, and Corporate Investment (anglais)
Despite the literature on rural land property rights, studies on urban land property rights are rare. This paper studies the impact of an urban land titling program on firm investment. It finds that the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8973 Date du document: 12 août 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Miao,Meng,Tang,Dragon Yongjun,Xu,Lixin