Krislert Samphantharak

University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy

Associate Professor of Economics

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla, CA 92093-0519

United States

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1.

The Choice of Organization Structure: Business Group Versus Conglomerate

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 28 Mar 2007
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Business Groups, Conglomerates

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Mixing Family with Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them

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Mixing Family with Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 21 Mar 2005
Marianne Bertrand, Simon Johnson, Krislert Samphantharak and Antoinette Schoar
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Entrepreneurship Center, University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Mixing Family with Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them

NBER Working Paper No. w13738
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 24 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2022
Marianne Bertrand, Simon Johnson, Krislert Samphantharak and Antoinette Schoar
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, International Monetary Fund (IMF), University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Lobbying and Taxes

American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 53, Issue 4. p. 893-909
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 10 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2011
Brian Kelleher Richter, Krislert Samphantharak and Jeffrey F. Timmons
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy and NYU Abu Dhabi
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Lobbying, Taxes, Money in Politics, Corporate Political Activity, Political Economy

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Predictable Corruption and Firm Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment and Survey of Cambodian Entrepreneurs

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Vol. 3, pp. 227-267, 2008
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 01 Sep 2010
Krislert Samphantharak, Edmund J. Malesky and Edmund J. Malesky
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy and affiliation not provided to SSRNDuke University, Political Science
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Cambodia, Corruption, Governors, Provinces, Business Environment, Economic Governance Index

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Households as Corporate Firms: Constructing Financial Statements from Integrated Household Surveys

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 27 Jun 2006
Krislert Samphantharak and Robert M. Townsend
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy and MIT - Department of Economics
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financial accounting, development economics, households, survey methods, measurement, risk, rates of return, liquidity

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Internal Capital Markets in Business Groups

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Mar 2007
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Internal capital markets, business groups, corporate governance, organization structure

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State Owned Enterprises in Southeast Asia

Forthcoming, Economic Development of Southeast Asia (2019) MIT Press
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Jun 2019
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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State Owned Enterprise, Privatization, Southeast Asia

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The Thai Economy: A Lost Decade?

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 10 May 2019
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Thailand, Middle Income Trap, Politics, Lost Decade

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Family Business Groups and Economic Development in Southeast Asia

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Feb 2019
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Family Business, Ethnic Minority, Business Group, Political Connection, Corporate Governance, Southeast Asia

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Ethnic Segregation and Public Goods: Evidence from Indonesia

Tajima, Yuhki, Krislert Samphantharak, and Kai Ostwald. “Ethnic Segregation and Public Goods: Evidence from Indonesia.” American Political Science Review 112, no. 3 (August 2018): 637–53. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055418000138.
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 19 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2020
Yuhki Tajima, Krislert Samphantharak and Kai Ostwald
Georgetown University - Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS), University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy and University of British Columbia (UBC)
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Ethnicity, Segregation, Public Goods, Indonesia

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Natural Disaster and Economic Development in Southeast Asia

Forthcoming, Economic Development of Southeast Asia (2019) MIT Press
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Jun 2019
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Natural Disaster, Economic Development, Vulnerability, Southeast Asia

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Economic Development of Southeast Asia: Country Experience

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 22 Feb 2019
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Southeast Asia, Colonial Legacy, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao Pdr, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam

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Capitalism in Southeast Asia Through the Lenses of Corporate Finance: What We Know and What We Don't

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Mar 2007
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Capitalism, Southeast Asia, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance

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Sovereign Wealth Funds in Southeast Asia

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 20 Feb 2019
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Sovereign Wealth Fund; Southeast Asia

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Risk and Return in Village Economies

NBER Working Paper No. w19738
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 20 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2022
Krislert Samphantharak and Robert M. Townsend
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Does DeFi Remove the Need for Trust? Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Stablecoin Lending

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 22 Jul 2022
Kanis Saengchote, Tālis J. Putniņš and Krislert Samphantharak
Department of Banking and Finance, Chulalongkorn Business School, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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DeFi, stablecoin, trust, incomplete contracts, regulation

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Heterogeneity and Risk Sharing in Village Economies

NBER Working Paper No. w16696
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 18 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2022
Pierre-Andre Chiappori, Krislert Samphantharak, Sam Schulhofer-Wohl and Robert M. Townsend
Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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$2.00 Gas! Studying the Effects of a Gas Tax Moratorium

NBER Working Paper No. w12266
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 01 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2022
Joseph J. Doyle and Krislert Samphantharak
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Economics, Finance, Accounting (EFA) and University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Economic Crises in Southeast Asia

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 27 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2019
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Financial Crisis, Debt Crisis, Asian Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Recession, Southeast Asia

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Civil Conflict and Economic Development in Southeast Asia

Forthcoming, Economic Development of Southeast Asia (2019) MIT Press
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 Jun 2019
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Civil Conflict, Economic Development, Southeast Asia

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Sectoral Development in Southeast Asia: Agriculture, Non-Renewable Natural Resources, Manufacture, and Services

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 22 Feb 2019
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Agricultural Development, Non-Renewable Resource, Manufacturing, Industrialization, Import Substitution, Export Orientation, Service Sector, Diversification, Volatility, Southeast Asia

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Liquidity Constraints, Kinship Networks, and the Financing of Household Investment

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 May 2012
Krislert Samphantharak and Robert M. Townsend
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Investment-cash flow sensitivity, financial constraint, liquidity, household investment, networks

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Household Debt and Delinquency Over the Life Cycle

Asian Development Review 37:1, 2020
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Apr 2020
Sommarat Chantarat, Atchana Lamsam, Krislert Samphantharak and Bhumjai Tangsawasdirat
Bank of Thailand, Bank of Thailand, University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy and Bank of Thailand
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Delinquency, Demography, Financial Development, Household Debt, Life Cycle

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Integrated Household Surveys: An Assessment of U.S. Methods and an Innovation

FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 17-7
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 29 Sep 2017
Krislert Samphantharak, Scott D. Schuh and Robert M. Townsend
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - Research Department and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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surveys, diaries, payments, financial statements, cash flows

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Edgeworth Cycles Revisited

NBER Working Paper No. w14162
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 16 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2022
Joseph J. Doyle, Erich Muehlegger and Krislert Samphantharak
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Economics, Finance, Accounting (EFA), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Dissecting Thailand’s International Trade: Evidence from 88 Million Export and Import Entries

Asian Development Review 36:1 March 2019
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Mar 2019
Tosapol Apaitan, Piti Disyatat and Krislert Samphantharak
Bank of Thailand, Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research, Bank of Thailand and University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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export firms, export-oriented industrialization, international trade, Thailand

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Economic Growth and Structural Transformation in Southeast Asia

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Feb 2019
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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Economic Growth, Asian Miracle, National Income, National Wealth, Endowment, Structural Transformation, Industrialization, Demographic Transition, Southeast Asia

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Propagation and Insurance in Village Networks

NBER Working Paper No. w28089
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 16 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2022
Cynthia Kinnan, Krislert Samphantharak, Robert M. Townsend and Diego Vera Cossio
Northwestern University - Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Inter-American Development Bank
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Natural Disasters and the Economy: Some Recent Experiences from Southeast Asia

Asian‐Pacific Economic Literature, Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 33-51, 2014
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Nov 2014
Krislert Samphantharak
University of California, San Diego - School of Global Policy and Strategy
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