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Wei, Shang-Jin - 2000

This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption … open economy' as determined by its size and geography would devote more resources to building good institutions and would … display lower corruption in equilibrium. In data, naturally more open economies' do exhibit less corruption even after taking …

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Pollution Havens and Foreign Direct Investment : Dirty Secret or Popular Myth?

Smarzynska, Beata K. - 2001

possibility that some features of FDI host countries, such as bureaucratic corruption, may deter inward FDI, but are positively … explicitly into account corruption level in host countries and using a firm-level data set on investment projects in 24 …

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Why is Corruption So Much More Taxing Than Tax? Arbitrariness Kills

Wei, Shang-Jin - 1997

This paper examines the effect of corruption-induced uncertainty on foreign direct" investment. The measure of … uncertainty is constructed based on unpublished individual survey" responses on levels of corruption in host countries. The result … level from that of" Singapore to that of Mexico, at the average level of corruption in the sample raising the tax rate on …

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A Sexually Unbalanced Model of Current Account Imbalances

Du, Qingyuan - 2010

Large savings and current account surpluses by China and other countries are said to be a contributor to the global current account imbalances and possibly to the recent global financial crisis. This paper proposes a theory of excess savings based on a major, albeit insufficiently recognized by...

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Global Business Cycles : Convergence or Decoupling?

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2008

This paper analyzes the evolution of the degree of global cyclical interdependence over the period 1960-2005. We categorize the 106 countries in our sample into three groups -- industrial countries, emerging markets, and other developing economies. Using a dynamic factor model, we then decompose...

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Determinants of Deposit-Insurance Adoption and Design

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli - 2007

This paper identifies factors that influence decisions about a country's financial safety net, using a comprehensive dataset covering 180 countries during the 1960-2003 period. Our analysis focuses on how private interest-group pressures, outside influences, and political-institutional factors...

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Inflation Targeting and Sudden Stops

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2003

Emerging economies experience sudden stops in capital inflows. As we have argued in Caballero and Krishnamurthy (2002), having access to monetary policy during these sudden stops is useful, but mostly for insurance' rather than for aggregate demand reasons. In this environment, a central bank...

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How Country and Safety-Net Characteristics Affect Bank Risk-Shifting

Hovakimian, Armen - 2002

insurance has had adverse effects in environments that are low in political and economic freedom and high in corruption …

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Creative Destruction and Development : Institutions, Crises, and Restructuring

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000

There is increasing empirical evidence that creative destruction, driven by experimentation and the adoption of new products and processes when investment is sunk, is a core mechanism of development. Obstacles to this process are likely to be obstacles to the progress in standards of living....

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Anticipations of Foreign Exchange Volatility and Bid-Ask Spreads

Wei, Shang-Jin - 1994

The paper studies the effect of the market's perceived exchange rate volatility on bid-ask spreads. The anticipated volatility is extracted from currency options data. An increase in the perceived volatility is found to widen bid-ask spreads. The direction of the effect is consistent with an...

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