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Decomposition of value added in gross exports: a critical review 出口总额中增加值的分解:一个批判性的回顾

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Applied Economic Analysis Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.1108/aea-11-2022-0300

Enrique Feás

{"title":"Decomposition of value added in gross exports: a critical review","authors":"Enrique Feás","doi":"10.1108/aea-11-2022-0300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/aea-11-2022-0300","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this paper is to settle the methodological debate on the decomposition of value added in gross exports, proposing a standard, exposing the drawbacks of the alternatives and quantifying the differences.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This paper systematizes the analytical framework and assesses and quantifies the various methodologies and its main differences.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The decomposition method of Borin and Mancini (2023), using a source-based approach and an exporting country perspective, should be considered as the standard for decomposing the value added in gross exports. This study finds that alternative approaches and perspectives are methodologically inferior, and that tailored perspectives do not provide an increase in accuracy that compensates their drawbacks.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This paper’s contribution is fourfold: it rejects the alleged equivalence between approaches and perspectives, defending the superiority of a particular method, approach and perspective; it gives quantitative examples of the differences between them; it proves that the drawbacks of tailored perspectives do not compensate their alleged accuracy (as they do not result in big quantitative differences with the standard perspective); and it argues that no valid standard decomposition can forego the calculation of value added exported, which requires the expression of exports in terms of final demand.\u0000","PeriodicalId":36191,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43825679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Left behind in Covid times: the impact of the pandemic on job loss and job finding rates of vulnerable groups in Serbia Covid时代的落伍者:大流行对塞尔维亚弱势群体失业和就业率的影响

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Applied Economic Analysis Pub Date : 2023-08-22 DOI: 10.1108/aea-02-2023-0063

Marko Vladisavljević, Lara Lebedinski

{"title":"Left behind in Covid times: the impact of the pandemic on job loss and job finding rates of vulnerable groups in Serbia","authors":"Marko Vladisavljević, Lara Lebedinski","doi":"10.1108/aea-02-2023-0063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/aea-02-2023-0063","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to analyse COVID-19’s effects on job loss and job finding rate in Serbia, focusing on groups with already low employment before the pandemic, such as youth, women, low-educated and rural areas.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The authors exploit the panel structure of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) data for Serbia to analyse if the impact of the pandemic on transition probabilities was different for vulnerable groups and their counterparts during the first year of the pandemic.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The results indicate that stagnation in overall employment growth in Serbia during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis resulted from decreases in new hiring rather than increases in job losses. However, trends differed for vulnerable groups. Young workers faced the highest increase in job losses, partly due to their higher shares in informal wage employment. In contrast, decreases in job finding rates were particularly high among low-educated and in rural areas.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000After the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, employment opportunities of vulnerable groups further deteriorated, and already existing labour market inequalities were exacerbated. These effects are partially due to policies implemented to mitigate the crisis, which focused on preserving permanent employment while leaving vulnerable workers and groups unprotected.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The authors investigate the annual effects of the first year of the pandemic in a country with a large informal sector and explore the role of vulnerable groups’ job characteristics in transition changes.\u0000","PeriodicalId":36191,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41872757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Linguistic clustering and aggregate productive efficiency in Indonesia 印度尼西亚的语言聚类与总生产效率

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Applied Economic Analysis Pub Date : 2023-06-20 DOI: 10.1108/aea-04-2022-0124

Alexandre Repkine

{"title":"Linguistic clustering and aggregate productive efficiency in Indonesia","authors":"Alexandre Repkine","doi":"10.1108/aea-04-2022-0124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/aea-04-2022-0124","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this study is to explore the link between aggregate production efficiency and the extent of linguistic clustering in Indonesia.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The author draws on the stochastic frontier model and applies it to the data on Indonesian provinces to compute the effects of various determinants on these provinces' aggregate production efficiency. The key determinant is the spatial index of linguistic clustering that the author believes has never been applied before in this context.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Linguistic clustering is an important determinant of aggregate production efficiency. Linguistic diversity is positively associated with productive efficiency if members of a specific linguistic group are not clustered beyond a certain level.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first study that links the spatial index of linguistic clustering (because of Massey and Danton) to production efficiency. In other words, the contribution of this study is to introduce a geographical dimension to the mainstream analysis of the association between ethnic diversity and economic performance.\u0000","PeriodicalId":36191,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Analysis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41754249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Convergence in working conditions 工作条件趋同

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Applied Economic Analysis Pub Date : 2023-06-09 DOI: 10.1108/aea-10-2022-0259

J. Antón, R. Grande, R. Muñoz de Bustillo

{"title":"Convergence in working conditions","authors":"J. Antón, R. Grande, R. Muñoz de Bustillo","doi":"10.1108/aea-10-2022-0259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/aea-10-2022-0259","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to explore the existence of convergence in non-monetary working conditions in Europe resorting to widely used definitions of this phenomenon and composite indexes of job quality.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The analysis relies on composite indexes, widely used in previous literature, for 207 regions in six different areas of job quality drawing on the microdata of the European Working Conditions Survey from 1995 to 2015. This study assesses the occurrence of convergence both in terms of dispersion of job quality outcomes (sigma-convergence) and, especially, regarding the existence of a catch-up process (beta-convergence).\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000This study finds evidence of both types of convergences in all the domains, with the exception of skills and discretion and prospects dimensions according to the sigma-convergence approach. The results do not suggest substantial differences between the 15 European Union countries before the 2004 enlargement and the new Member States and are robust to a wide range of changes in the sample and different econometric specifications.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000Tot he best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper represents the first rigorous and systematic attempt of addressing the existence of convergence in non-monetary working conditions, applying formal and widely accepted definitions of this phenomenon. It contributes to our knowledge on this topic providing strong evidence of convergence in job quality. Those results can be of interest for scholars in Economics and other Social Sciences.\u0000","PeriodicalId":36191,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45131335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How does oil price uncertainty affect output in the Central and Eastern European economies? – the Bayesian-based approaches 油价的不确定性如何影响中欧和东欧经济体的产出?-基于贝叶斯的方法

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Applied Economic Analysis Pub Date : 2022-06-16 DOI: 10.1108/aea-07-2021-0158

D. Živkov, Jasmina Đurašković

{"title":"How does oil price uncertainty affect output in the Central and Eastern European economies? – the Bayesian-based approaches","authors":"D. Živkov, Jasmina Đurašković","doi":"10.1108/aea-07-2021-0158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/aea-07-2021-0158","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to investigate how oil price uncertainty affects real gross domestic product (GDP) and industrial production in eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC).\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000In the research process, the authors use the Bayesian method of inference for the two applied methodologies – Markov switching generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model and quantile regression.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The results clearly indicate that oil price uncertainty has a low effect on output in moderate market conditions in the selected countries. On the other hand, in the phases of contraction and expansion, which are portrayed by the tail quantiles, the authors find negative and positive Bayesian quantile parameters, which are relatively high in magnitude. This implies that in periods of deep economic crises, an increase in the oil price uncertainty reduces output, amplifying in this way recession pressures in the economy. Contrary, when the economy is in expansion, oil price uncertainty has no influence on the output. The probable reason lies in the fact that the negative effect of oil volatility is not strong enough in the expansion phase to overpower all other positive developments which characterize a growing economy. Also, evidence suggests that increased oil uncertainty has a more negative effect on industrial production than on real GDP, whereas industrial share in GDP plays an important role in how strong some CEECs are impacted by oil uncertainty.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This paper is the first one that investigates the spillover effect from oil uncertainty to output in CEEC.\u0000","PeriodicalId":36191,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43934827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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On the economic evaluation of online learning in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: a willingness-to-accept approach 新冠肺炎大流行期间高等教育在线学习的经济评估：一种自愿接受的方法

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Applied Economic Analysis Pub Date : 2022-05-05 DOI: 10.1108/aea-04-2021-0083

Salvador del Saz-Salazar, S. Gil‐Pareja, María José García-Grande

{"title":"On the economic evaluation of online learning in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: a willingness-to-accept approach","authors":"Salvador del Saz-Salazar, S. Gil‐Pareja, María José García-Grande","doi":"10.1108/aea-04-2021-0083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/aea-04-2021-0083","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This study, using a contingent valuation approach, aims to shed light on the economic evaluation of online learning during the first wave of the pandemic.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000A sample of 959 higher education students was asked about their willingness-to-accept (WTA) a monetary compensation for the loss of well-being resulting from the unexpected and mandatory transition to the online space. In explaining WTA determinants, the authors test the appropriateness of the double-hurdle model against the alternative of a Tobit model and find that the factors affecting the participation decision are not the same as those that affect the quantity decision.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Results show that a vast majority of the respondents think that the abrupt transition to online learning is detrimental to them, while those willing to accept a monetary compensation account for 77% of the sample, being the mean WTA between €448 and €595. As expected, WTA decreases with income and age, and it increases if some member of the family unit is unemployed. By aggregating the mean WTA by the population affected, total loss of well-being is obtained.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000To the best of the authors’ knowledge, to date, this method has not been used to value online learning in a WTA framework, much less in the particular context of the pandemic. Thus, based on the understanding that the economic evaluation of online learning could be very useful in providing guidance for decision-making, this paper contributes to the literature on the economic evaluation of higher education.\u0000","PeriodicalId":36191,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Analysis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43907852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Testing for multiple bubbles: historical episodes on the sustainability of public debt in Spain, 1850–2020 多重泡沫的检验:1850-2020年西班牙公共债务可持续性的历史事件

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Applied Economic Analysis Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1108/aea-01-2021-0003

V. Esteve, Maria A. Prats

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Factors determining teleworking before and during COVID-19: some evidence from Spain and Andalusia 决定新冠肺炎之前和期间远程工作的因素：来自西班牙和安达卢西亚的一些证据

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Applied Economic Analysis Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1108/aea-08-2021-0199

Antonio Caparrós Ruiz

{"title":"Factors determining teleworking before and during COVID-19: some evidence from Spain and Andalusia","authors":"Antonio Caparrós Ruiz","doi":"10.1108/aea-08-2021-0199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/aea-08-2021-0199","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This study aims to analyse the inequalities in access to teleworking in Spain. More specifically, the study examines what factors determine remote working in a pre-pandemic period and during the state of alarm (March 2020). Moreover, the study examines whether telecommuting is related to the likelihood of suffering emotional disorders during lockdowns.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The methodological approach followed to analyse access to teleworking mainly consists of the estimation of ordered response models. Two datasets are used: the first is the Survey on Equipment and Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Households, conducted by the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE) in the pre-pandemic period (2018). The second is the Social Survey 2020. Habits and Living Conditions of the Andalusian Population during the State of Alarm, conducted by the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia (IECA) once the state of alarm was declared in Spain.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The results obtained indicate that ICT training is a key element in helping to explain the likelihood of working from home. However, some groups of workers might experience difficulties in their transition to teleworking. This could increase labour market segmentation and hinder the transition to the knowledge economy. Moreover, the findings detect that employees working both on the company premises and from home are more likely to suffer emotional disorders.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The paper sheds new empirical evidence on teleworking in Spain and Andalusia, including some novel methodological aspects to estimate the regressors’ effects on the probability of working from home.\u0000","PeriodicalId":36191,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49134503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Banning mobile phones in schools: evidence from regional-level policies in Spain 禁止在学校使用手机：来自西班牙地区层面政策的证据

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Applied Economic Analysis Pub Date : 2022-01-25 DOI: 10.1108/aea-05-2021-0112

P. Beneito, Óscar Vicente-Chirivella

{"title":"Banning mobile phones in schools: evidence from regional-level policies in Spain","authors":"P. Beneito, Óscar Vicente-Chirivella","doi":"10.1108/aea-05-2021-0112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/aea-05-2021-0112","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The autonomous governments of two regions in Spain established mobile bans in schools as of the year 2015. Exploiting the across-region variation introduced by such a quasi-natural experiment, this study aims to perform a comparative-case analysis to investigate the impact of this non-spending-based policy on regional Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores in maths and sciences and bullying incidence.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The authors apply the synthetic control method and diff-in-diff estimation to compare the treated regions with the rest of regions in Spain before and after the intervention.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The results show noticeable reductions of bullying incidence among teenagers in the two treated regions. The authors also find positive and significant effects of this policy on the PISA scores of the Galicia region that are equivalent to 0.6–0.8 years of learning in maths and around 0.72 to near one year of learning in sciences.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first empirical study analysing the impact of mobile phone bans in schools on bullying cases, exploiting variation across regions (or other units), years and age intervals. Besides, the scarce formal evidence that exists on the consequences of the mobile phones use in students’ academic achievement comes from a micro perspective, while the paper serves as one more piece of evidence from a macro perspective.\u0000","PeriodicalId":36191,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45097693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The role of foreign direct investment in growth: Spain, 1964–2013 外国直接投资在增长中的作用：西班牙，1964–2013年

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Applied Economic Analysis Pub Date : 2021-10-24 DOI: 10.1108/aea-07-2021-0157

O. Bajo‐Rubio

{"title":"The role of foreign direct investment in growth: Spain, 1964–2013","authors":"O. Bajo‐Rubio","doi":"10.1108/aea-07-2021-0157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/aea-07-2021-0157","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000Foreign direct investment (FDI) has played a major role in the deep process of transformation experienced by the Spanish economy since the first 1960s, which even intensified, following the integration with the now European Union in 1986. This paper aims to analyse the long-run effects of FDI in Spain by estimating a production function including the foreign capital stock over the period 1964–2013.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The author estimates a production function including the foreign capital stock over the period 1964–2013, from which the contributions of the different explanatory variables on the accumulated growth of gross domestic product (GDP) are computed. Next, the author tested for the possible presence of structural change in the previously estimated equation, by means of the tests of Bai and Perron, re-estimating the production function for the different subperiods delimited by the structural breaks found. Finally, the analysis is completed by performing Granger-causality tests on the variables GDP and foreign capital stock in a multivariate setting.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The author finds a significant contribution of foreign capital on the accumulated growth of GDP over the period of analysis, which seems however to have been greater during the first years of the period analysed. Foreign capital can play a positive role in the economic growth of an economy, provided that FDI inflows are stable and permanent enough, but this effect on growth seems to be more important in the first stages of a growth process.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The author presents a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between FDI and growth for a particular country, which seems to be a more promising empirical approach rather than the approach based on panel regressions, where sometimes some dissimilar experiences are added together. The Spanish economy can provide a relevant case study, given the substantial process of growth it enjoyed starting from the early 1960s, characterized by the arrival of vast inflows of foreign capital.\u0000","PeriodicalId":36191,"journal":{"name":"Applied Economic Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44527260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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