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mechanism of dispute resolution within the framework of a disciplinary mode of administrative law within a bureaucratic …
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when the descriptive and prescriptive norms conflict. The next main question is the expressive role of law. The choices of … also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material incentives and … analysis, combining an informed principal with individually signaling agents, makes precise the notion of expressive law …
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This paper develops the building blocks for a legal theory of finance. LTF holds that financial markets are legally …, financial markets exhibit dynamics that frequently put them in direct tension with commitments enshrined in law or contracts … self-destruction of the financial system. This law-finance paradox tends to be resolved by suspending the full force of law …
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We analyze how the law and its enforcement affect equity market equilibrium. Improvements in the legal system, while …
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quality of institutions, such as judicial efficiency and rule of law, but have no relationship with measures of shareholder … efficiency and rule of law, but negatively with shareholder rights' protection, controlling for risk and expected earnings growth …
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In a two-country Schumpeterian growth model, we study the incentives for basic research investments by governments in a globalized world. We find that a country's basic research investments increase with the country's level of human capital and decline with its own market size. This may explain...
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The aim of this paper is to identify possibilities for guiding policy in the area of basic research. We provide an extended review of basic research and offer new insights on its linkages to key economic variables and economic growth. After defining what basic research is, we identify and...
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The majority of microfinance impact studies focus on finding their effect on a specific group of beneficiaries, in contrast we aim to identify the impact on whole economies (economic growth, and financial sector development and reductions in income inequalities), which is an important policy...
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We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
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To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa’s slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that have discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy distortions to relative prices...
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