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Corporate Governance Rating and Family Firms: The Greek Case

Spanos, Loukas; Tsipouri, Lena; Xanthakis, Manolis - EconWPA - 2005

the owners in the management. Family firm is the most common form of business in Greece. Hence, the governance structures … explore the main aspects of CG of family-owned listed companies in Greece. For this purpose, we apply a specific CG rating … on the current state of corporate governance in Greece. Each firm is rated among the 120 total number of companies (both …

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MODELING INTEREST RATE TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS IN GREECE. IS THERE ANY STRUCTURAL BREAK AFTER EMU?

CHIONIS, DIONYSIOS; LEON, COSTAS - EconWPA - 2005

We examine the transmission process of the policy rate to the lending and deposit rates in Greece for the period 1996 … of Greece into EMU in 2001. The bank rates become much more responsive to the policy rate in terms of impact multipliers …

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Corporate governance in Greece: developments and policy implications

Spanos, Loukas - EconWPA - 2005

present the main aspects of corporate governance in Greece, contributing to the relevant growing body of literature, and (ii …) to place the current corporate governance developments and trends in Greece within the international debate, especially … governance debate and its implication at the EU level. Secondly, I describe the corporate governance framework in Greece in the …

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User's Guide to an Early Warning System for Macroeconomic Vulnerability in Latin American Countries

Herrera, Santiago; Garcia, Conrado A. - EconWPA - 2000

The object of this paper is to develop an Early Warning System of Macro Vulnerability for several Latin American countries based on previous work of Kaminsky, Lizondo and Reinhart (1997) and Kaminsky (1998). We build a composite leading indicator that signals macroeconomic vulnerability, showing...

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THE ROLE OF GLOBAL RISK AVERSION IN EXPLAINING LATIN AMERICAN SOVEREIGN SPREADS

HERRERO, ALICIA GARCIA; ORTIZ, ALVARO - EconWPA - 2005

This paper assesses empirically whether global risk aversion (GRA) and some if its determinants (US economic growth and the US long term interest rates) explain developments in Latin American sovereign spreads. We find that GRA is significant and positively related to Latin American sovereign...

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La metodología de la investigación en la Economía Aplicada; The Research Methodology in Applied Economics

Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2005

Sumario La ciencia económica es un tipo específico de conocimiento dentro de las ciencias sociales. Para lograr realizar un estudio del conocimiento económico de tal naturaleza, o sea, para hacer ciencia económica, es preciso seguir determinados procedimientos que nos permitan realizar un...

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Any Link Between Legal Central Bank Independence and Inflation? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Jácome, Luis; Vázquez, Francisco - EconWPA - 2005

This paper reviews central bank legislation in 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s. Using panel regressions, the paper finds a negative relationship between legal central bank independence (CBI) and inflation. This result holds for three alternative measures of CBI,...

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I processi cumulativi nella crisi del debito degli anni 80: una lettura dai casi di Argentina, Brasile e Messico Cumulative processes in the 1980s debt crisis: an analysis from Arg...

Panizza, Andrea de - EconWPA - 2003

This paper analyses the 1980s Latin American debt crisis in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and, in particular, the influence of cumulative processes at work in its early and final stages. The paper is organised in three sections. The first examines the crisis<92> features in the three countries, and...</92>

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Sviluppo e riforme in Cile: apertura commerciale, fondi pensione e privatizzazione dei servizi/REFORMS AND DEVELOPMENT IN CHILE: Macro considerations on Int'l Trade, Pension Funds...

Panizza, Andrea de - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the growth pattern followed by the Chilean economy with reference to the macroeconomic reforms undertaken during the Pinochet regime, which were largely maintained by successive democratic administrations and partially reproduced by neighbouring countries. The focus is on the...

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Latin American Central Bank Reform: Progress and Challenges

Carstens, Agustin; Luis I. Jacome H. - EconWPA - 2005

This study takes stock of the institutional reform of monetary policy in Latin America since the early 1990s. It argues that strengthening the legal independence of central banks, together with macroeconomic policies, was instrumental in reducing inflation from three-digit annual rates in the...

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