This paper examines the relationship between political competition and financial development across a global sample of … of Acemoglu and Robinson (2006) and Besley et al. (2010), we explore whether political competition impacts financial … efficiency of the financial sector, we find a Ushaped relationship between political competition and financial development in the …

I study how political competition affects the feasibility of free trade agreements (FTAs). I show that the possibility …

The COVID pandemic caused the political competition between the prime ministers of the German states to reach its peak … politically. In this paper, we attempt to document which state leaders are forerunners or latecomers in this political competition …