Tags : IEMS Research Grants

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Evaluating Spillover Effects of the Trader Agent Intermediated Lending Scheme on Non-borrowers
Co-Investigators(s) Pushkar Maitra, Professor, Monash University Sandip Mitra, Assistant Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Dilip Mookherjee, Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University     Our previous research shows that the Trader Agent Intermediated Lending (TRAIL) scheme ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2015/evaluating-spillover-effects-of-the-trader-agent-intermediated-lending-scheme-on-non-borrowers-visaria
Suppression or Diffusion? Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Labor Rights Protection in Emerging Market Countries
Hye Jee Cho When capital is mobile internationally but labor is not, do workers suffer? The conventional answer to this question is that governments have a strong incentive to refrain from protecting workers’ rights in order to gain a competitive advantage in the world market. However, those who are optimistic ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2015/cho-suppression-diffusion-effects-of-foreign
National Expressway Expansion, Trade integration and Pollution: Micro-Evidence from 60,000 Industrial Plants in China
The fast expansion of China’s National Expressway System (guojia gaosugonglu wang) since 1990s not only connects the large metropolitan urban cities, but also small peripheral rural counties. By exploiting this largescale natural experiment, the proposed research tries to provide micro-evidence on the ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2015/he-national-expressway-expansion-trade
Value of Chinese Patents: Evidence from the Chinese Patent Inventor Survey
How valuable are Chinese patents really? Critics have long argued that the value of Chinese patents is low given the variety of attractive government benefits accorded to those who apply for patents. Using the inventor survey approach (one of three major approaches used to estimate the value of patents), I attempt to ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2015/sharif-value-chinese-patents-evidence
[UPDATED] Results Announced for Call-for-Proposals for IEMS Research Grants 2014-2015
[Update 2] The results have been announced here. [Update] The deadline for proposal submission has been extended to March 15, 2015. For enquiries, please contact us at 3469 2215 or iems@ust.hk HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (HKUST IEMS) is happy to announce the new around of IEMS ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/iems-updates/2014/call-for-proposal-for-iems-research-grants-2014-2015
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