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Foreign Direct Investment has become an important source of long-term capital inflows for less developed countries in the last two decades. As documented in previous literature, FDI flows may increase permanently domestic output and represent an important source of technological spillovers for...
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experiment allows us to identify important interactions between emission shocks, banking and enforcement. Preliminary results …
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Leniency programs reduce sanctions for law violators that self-report. We focus on their ability to deter cartels and organized crime by increasing incentives to "cheat" on partners. Optimally designed "courageous" leniency programs reward the first party that reports with the fines paid by all...
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This paper studies the design of law-making and law enforcement institutions based on the premise that law is … inherently incomplete. Under incomplete law, law enforcement by courts may suffer from deterrence failure, defined as the … once others have initiated law enforcement procedures, while regulators enforce law proactively, i.e. on their own …
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be eliminated. The size and power of this new test are examined. We find the size of this test to be accurate for several … time series models including the AR, GARCH and diffusion models. The power of this test is high in comparison to the …
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power on data that includes breaks of opposite sign. We extend this test in two directions. First, we propose a new … mean or trend reversion. The simulation results show good power and satisfactory size of the new procedures. Using long … purchasing power parity from the application of unit root and structural change tests. We argue that the Bai and Perron test is …
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operational empirically. Finally, the power and size distortions of this sequential test procedure are analysed with Monte …
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