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本論文使用世界銀行在2006年及2010年於六個拉丁美洲國家進行的企業調查所得之一組全新數據,重新在公司層面審視「金融發展--(公司)增長」的連結關係,發現即使控制了宏觀經濟的改變以及利用固定效應之縱橫計量模型進行估算,金融發展對公司銷售以及勞工生產力都有顯著的正面效果,支持以往相關的公司層面研究。 ; 然而,與過往的公司層面研究不同,金融發展對比較大型公司的正面影響,相對小型公司之影響為大。這結果與較近期的研究指在新興市場中,金融發展會不成比例地刺激本來因政治或其他因素與金融體系比較密切的公司相符。未來研究應注重這些市場的獨特性以求更透徹地了解箇中機制。 ; This thesis revisits the finance-growth nexus at the firm level. Using a new dataset based on the World Bank Enterprise Survey conducted in 2006 and 2010 covering six Latin American countries, financial development is found to have a positive effect on both the level of firm sales and labor productivity, after controlling for other macroeconomic changes and unobserved firm-specific effects in a panel-data estimation, reinforcing previous similar studies at the firm level, which relied only on cross-sectional data. ; However, in contrast to earlier firm level cross-sectional researches, it is discovered that financial development exerts a greater positive effect on larger firms relative to smaller ones. This is consistent with more recent studies that finance disproportionately spurs growth of firms that are originally more connected to the financial system for political or other reasons in the context of emerging markets. Future researches should point to the uniqueness of these markets to understand more thoroughly the mechanism behind. ; Detailed summary in vernacular field only. ; Detailed summary in vernacular field only. ; Tsang, Wai Him. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-72). ; Abstracts also in Chinese. ; Abstract --- p.ii ; 擇要 --- p.iii ; Acknowledgements --- p.iv ; Table of Contents --- p.v ; Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter 2 --- Motivation --- p.6 ; Chapter 2.1 --- Revisiting the finance-growth connection at the firm-level with a new dataset --- p.13 ; Chapter 2.2 --- The distributional effects associated with financial development --- p.18 ; Chapter 3 --- Data Set and Methodology --- p.25 ; Chapter 3.1 --- The Data --- p.25 ; Chapter 3.2 ...

The article wants to bridge the gap between Comparative Politics and International Relations by recourse to the nearly forgotten Latin-American dependency theories. To do this, first of all the deficits of Western democratization research with respect to external factors of autocratization and democratization processes will be highlighted. Then, linking the structural analysis of dependency theory with the neorealist approach in International Relations, the article develops an interference model that will be used to analyse the political developments in postcolonial areas since the Second World War. As a result, the article presents an explanation of the wave-like character of autocratization and democratization as an alternative to Western research into political transformation.

Seit den Zeiten des Booms um den magischen Realismus in den 1960er und 70er Jahren, wie ist es den lateinamerikanisch-deutschen Kulturtransfers mit Bezug auf die Literatur ergangen? Was gilt eigentlich als Weltliteratur, und ist die von Goethe geprägte Idee einer Literatur der Welt heute noch aktuell? Und wenn ja, wie genau? Aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln, denen von Literaturwissenschaftler(inne)n diesseits und jenseits des Atlantiks, von einer Lektorin und einem Übersetzer sowie verschiedenen Autoren, wird der Status Quo des literarischen Austausches in dem Sammelband Verlag Macht Weltliteratur. Lateinamerikanisch-deutsche Kulturtransfers zwischen internationalem Literaturbetrieb und Übersetzungspolitik kundig und detailliert beschrieben. Es wird deutlich, dass für einen wirklichen Dialog jenseits der Klischees und eingefahrenen Konsum- und Lesegewohnheiten viel zu tun bleibt. ; Since the boom period of magical realism during the 1960s and 70s, what has happened to the Latin American-German cultural transfers regarding literature? How is world literature defined, is Goethe's idea of a literature of the world still relevant, and if yes, how exactly is that? From different angles – those of literary scholars on this and the other side of the Atlantic – by an editor and a literary translator as well as by several authors, the status quo of the literary exchange is described skillfully and thoroughly in the present publication to be reviewed here. It becomes clear that for a real dialogue to happen, beyond clichés and deep-rooted consumerism or reading habits, there remains a lot to do.