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Does the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce Align Private Firms with the Goals of the People's Republic of China's Belt and Road Initiative? by Nugent, Jeffrey B., Lu, Jiaxuan

“…This paper demonstrates that the largest business association of private firms in the People's Republic of China (PRC), the All-China Federation of Industry…”
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China's outward foreign direct investment in the Belt and Road Initiative: What are the motives for Chinese firms to invest? by Nugent, Jeffrey B., Lu, Jiaxuan

“…Because of the potentially large and important effects of the extremely ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched by China in late 2013, considerable…”
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A new institutional perspective on business associations: Filling a gap between firms and states in the dynamic analysis of Richard Day by Nugent, Jeffrey B.

“…In much of his work, Richard H. Day was concerned with the dynamics of growth among firms, households, industries and entire economies, and the fact that…”
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Management of oil revenues: Has that of Azerbaijan been prudent? by Gurbanov, Sarvar, Nugent, Jeffrey B, Mikayilov, Jeyhun

“…To help explain the common failure of oil or other natural resource exporting countries to diversify into industry, it has been common to trace this failure to…”
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Time-varying impact of oil shocks on trade balances: Evidence using the TVP-VAR model by Balli, Esra, Nazif Çatık, Abdurrahman, Nugent, Jeffrey B.

“…This paper investigates the effects of oil supply and demand shocks on the current account balances of China and Russia for the period between the first…”
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Coordinating China's economic growth strategy via its government-controlled association for private firms by Lei, Zhenhuan, Nugent, Jeffrey B.

“…Scholars in economics and political science argue that one major function of government is to overcome coordination failure in economic development, especially…”
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The migration of fear: An analysis of migration choices of Syrian refugees by Balcilar, Mehmet, Nugent, Jeffrey B.

“…The current literature on forced migration offers only limited knowledge of how each of the different consequences of war, such as damage to property and…”
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Adversities in Syria and their relation to their physical and mental health conditions as Syrian refugees in Turkey by Balcilar, Mehmet, Nugent, Jeffrey B., Xu, Jiahui

“…The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which different health problems among Syrian refugees in Turkey can be traced back to three different…”
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A Mixed Application of Geographically Weighted Regression and Unsupervised Classification for Analyzing Latex Yield Variability in Yunnan, China by Oh Seok Kim, Jeffrey B. Nugent, Zhuang-Fang Yi, Joshua P. Newell, Andrew J. Curtis

“…This paper introduces a mixed method approach for analyzing the determinants of natural latex yields and the associated spatial variations and identifying the…”
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The importance of being a capable supplier: Italian industrial firms in global value chains by Agostino, Mariarosaria, Giunta, Anna, Nugent, Jeffrey B., Scalera, Domenico, Trivieri, Francesco

“…This article argues that joining global value chains may be decisive for supplier firms in developed countries by providing incentives and opportunities to…”
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The relationship between energy consumption, CO2 emissions, and economic growth in Turkey: evidence from Fourier approximation by Balli, Esra, Nugent, Jeffrey B., Coskun, Nuran, Sigeze, Ciler

“…Given that Turkey has recently committed itself for the first time to reducing its CO 2 emissions in the interest of sustainable growth in not only Turkey but…”
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When do firms choose to train?: The roles of labour regulations, their enforcement, and firm and industry characteristics by Liaqat, Zara, Nugent, Jeffrey B

“…This article estimates the effects of rigid labour regulations, their enforcement and other conditions facing individual firms on the likelihood that a firm…”
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An introduction to the special issue of the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance on the economies of Middle East and North Africa by Cinar, Mine, Esfahani, Hadi Salehi, Nugent, Jeffrey B.

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Does oil really curse democracy? A long-run time-series analysis of 127 countries by O’Connor, Kelsey J., Blanco, Luisa R., Nugent, Jeffrey B.

“…The resource curse is a topic studied intensively in both economics and political science. Much of the focus is now on whether oil affects democratic…”
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Aggregate Investment and Political Instability: An Econometric Investigation by Campos, Nauro F., Nugent, Jeffrey B.

“…Although in theory the long-run effect of uncertainty on investment is ambiguous, available econometric evidence widely supports a negative association between…”
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Aid, Nontraded Goods, and the Transfer Paradox in Small Countries by Yano, Makoto, Nugent, Jeffrey B.

“…This paper constructs a model of the transfer paradox for a small open economy with nontraded goods. It demonstrates that increased production of nontraded…”
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Oil prices and life satisfaction: asymmetries between oil exporting and oil importing countries by Nugent, Jeffrey B., Switek, Malgorzata

“…In spite of general consensus on the importance of oil prices for objective measures of economic well-being across countries, almost no research has been…”
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Development Performance and the Institutions of Governance: Evidence from East Asia and Latin America by Campos, Nauro F, Nugent, Jeffrey B

“…The purpose of this paper is three-fold: to assess the extent to which the institutional characteristics of governance can be captured with available data, to…”
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Crises, What Crises? New Evidence on the Relative Roles of Political and Economic Crises in Begetting Reforms by Campos, Nauro F., Hsiao, Cheng, Nugent, Jeffrey B.

“…Crises beget reforms is a powerful hypothesis. But which type of crises - economic or political - are the main drivers of structural reforms? To answer this…”
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Real options and demographic decisions: Empirical evidence from East and West Germany by Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar, Nugent, Jeffrey B

“…Iyer and Velu ( 2006 ) have convincingly argued that contemporary analyses of fertility behaviour fail to explain why a woman (or a couple) will choose to…”
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