. These countries place few restrictions on capital mobility and allow their exchange rates to float. The domestic focus of … volatility and less frequent “sudden stops” of capital flows than similar countries that do not target inflation. Inflation …

Recent Eurobarometer survey data are used to document and explain the stock of social capital in 27 European countries …. Social capital in Central and Eastern Europe – measured by civic participation and access to social networks – lags behind … that in Western European countries. Using regression analysis of determinants of individual stock of social capital, we …

This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on … benefits of social capital. Since this literature is still in its early days, policy conclusions are accordingly harder to find. …

also shows that wages in finance were excessively high around 1930 and from the mid 1990s until 2006. For the recent period …

ownership throughout the economy. …

In a study of the ownership of German corporations, we find a strong relation between board turnover and corporate … performance, little association between concentrations of ownership with managerial disciplining and only limited evidence that … pyramid structures can be used for control purposes. The static relation of ownership to control in Germany is therefore …

ownership-legal form categories of firms. By using a large panel of quarterly observations, we eliminate biases introduced by …

The relation between IMF conditionality and country ownership of assistance programs is considered from a political … conditionality and ownership. The Paper stresses a conflict between a reformist government and domestic interest groups that oppose … reform, leading to a distinction between government and country ownership of a program. A model of lending and policy reform …