Environmental Reporting Practices in an Emerging Economy

Money Growth Rules in an Emerging Small Open Economy with an informal sector

This paper is concerned with the saddle-path stability of monetary growth rules in a two-country two-sector dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. Alongside standard features of emerging economies, such as a combination of producer and local currency pricing for exports, fiscal dominance and oil exports, this model also incorporates informal labour and production sectors and examines how...

Is Tanzania an emerging economy?

The Credit Channel in an Emerging Economy

To date, there is no consensus about how frictions in the credit market affect the transmission of the monetary policy to the real economy. The traditional money channel states that when the Central Bank reduces its reserves, commercial banks are forced to reduce their demand for deposits. If prices are sticky, in the short-run a decrease in real monetary holdings should lead to higher real int...

Open innovation in an emerging economy

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of firms in Peru in relation to open innovation. Design/methodology/approach – Data were acquired through a survey of Peruvian middle and senior managers. Findings – Peruvian firms engaged in open innovation did report higher sales growth. The study indicated that involvement in open innovation included activities to reduce opera...

An Emerging Credit Reporting System in China

This paper examines the development of a credit reporting system in China. We first outline the rationale for having a credit reporting system through reviewing the literature on asymmetric information. We then proceed to discuss how the credit reporting system works in China. First we present a case study of a private credit reporting agency in Chengdu that was established in 2000. This was th...