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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Oct 2023

How Do Firms Withstand a Global Economic Shock: Evidence from Within-Firm Responses

Vyacheslav (Slava) FOS, Xiao CHEN, Wei JIANG
China’s Five-Year Plans (industrial policies targeting specific industries) displace US production/employment and heighten plant closures in the same industries. The shocks were not anticipated by the U.S. stock market, but firms in the treated industries suffer valuation loss afterwards. Firms ad...
Keywords: Within-firm adjustment, global economic shocks
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Apr 2021

Going Bankrupt in China

Bo LI, Jacopo PONTICELLI
Using a new case-level dataset, we document a set of stylized facts on bankruptcy in China and study how the staggered introduction of specialized courts across Chinese cities affected insolvency resolution and the local economy. For identification, we compare bankruptcy cases handled by specialized...
Keywords: Specialized courts, Political influence, Court efficiency, Zombie firms
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Pandemic

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Jun 2020

Gender Equality in Work and COVID-19 Deaths

Renee B. ADAMS
On average, women comprise a smaller share of deaths from Covid-19. Variation in the share of Covid-19 deaths for women across countries and US States suggests that biological factors cannot fully account for this gender difference. I hypothesize that women’s participation in the workforce is rela...
Keywords: COVID-19, Death, gender, Work, Equality, Doctors, Nurses, labor Force Participation
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Pandemic

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Jun 2020

Food Security and Human Mobility During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Prithwiraj (Raj) CHOUDHURY, Tarun KHANNA, Wesley W. KOO, Xina LI, Nishant KISHORE, Satchit BALSARI
During the COVID-19 crisis, millions of migrants around the world face food insecurity. This could force migrants to travel during the pandemic, exposing them to health risks and accelerating the spread of the virus. Anecdotal evidence demonstrates the importance of enforcing food security policies ...
Keywords: COVID-19, Migrants, Food Security, Mobility, Health Pandemics, Food, Distribution, policy, Global Range
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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Jan 2022

FinTech Lending and Cashless Payments

Pulak GHOSH, Yao ZENG, Boris VALLEE
This study provides a new perspective on the rise of FinTech lending by uncovering an informational synergy with cashless payments. Theoretically, FinTech lenders screen borrowers more efficiently when borrowers use cashless payments that produce transferable and verifiable information. In turn, bec...
Keywords: FinTech, Lending, payments, verifiability, data sharing, open banking
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