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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation
Kane, Edward J. - 1997
and efficiency across society as a whole. Agency-cost theory recognizes that incentive conflicts and coordination problems … one sector of society at the expense of another. Each rationale sets different goals and assigns responsibiliy for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472798
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Regulation and Supervision : An Ethical Perspective
Kane, Edward J. - 2008
This essay shows that government credit-allocation schemes generate incentive conflicts that undermine the quality of bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory culture that embraces three economically contradictory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464752
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"Unusual, Unstable, Complicated, Unreliable and Temporary" Reinterpreting the Ebb and Flow of Globalization
Bordo, Michael D.; Schenk, Catherine R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
organize: World War I, Bretton Woods, 1970s Great Inflation and Managed Floating. Each turning point was characterized by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599404
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Riding the Wave of Trade : Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization
Huberman, Michael - 2009
labor regulation of partners because intraindustry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463276
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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700
Jacks, David S. - 2009
of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463899
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Globalization and the Great Divergence : Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2008
W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464805
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Globalization, Trade, and Development : Some Lessons From History
Taylor, Alan M. - 2002
Recent research in international economic history has opened up new lines of enquiry on the origins of globalization, as well as its causes and consequences. Such findings have the potential to inform contemporary debates and this paper considers what lessons this body of historical work has for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469380
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Globalization, Convergence and History
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1995
world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence …. But is the correlation spurious? When the pre-World War I years are examined in detail, the correlation turns out to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473616
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Globalization, Democracy and Development
de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 2013
This paper addresses the interactions between globalization, the quality of democracy, and economic convergence using simultaneous estimation techniques. To reflect process, we use multi-dimensional, de facto, and continuous measures of democracy and globalization. To reflect context, as defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459086
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Bank Chartering and Political Corruption in Antebellum New York : Free Banking as Reform
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2004
banking was the progeny of the corruption associated with bank chartering and reflected social, political and economic … backlashes against corruption dating to the late-1810s. Three strands of political thought -- Antimasonic egalitarianism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468214