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A New Global Index of Infrastructure: Construction, Rankings and Applications

Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An unobserved components model is employed to cover the largest possible number of developing and developed countries over the period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new...

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Phases of Competition Policy in Europe

Resch, Andreas - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2005

In the process of globalization, international convergence of competition legislation has steadily gained importance. Yet, specific aspects of European history gave capital markets, corporate governance and competition policies a special flavor. Historically grown peculiarities have to be taken...

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Dealing with Disaster: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906

Strupp, Christoph - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 remains one of the biggest urban disasters in American history. This paper gives a comprehensive overview of how the city coped with the immediate consequences of the catastrophe and quickly rebuilt. It analyzes the tense political situation of San Francisco...

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National Socialist Plundering of Precious Metals, 1933-1945: The Role of Degussa

Banken, Ralf - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006

This research project of the Research Institute for Social and Economic History at the University of Cologne is to clarify the process and causes of the theft of precious metals by the Nazis as well as explaining the economic utilization of the stolen property between 1938 and 1945, giving...

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The Influence of the SS on the Foreign Exchange Controls and the Despoliation of the German Jews, 1935-1941

Banken, Ralf - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006

The law on Foreign Exchange Control, which had been passed as early as 1931 in oder to fight the scarcity of foreign currency, was used to impede the transfer of Jewish property abroad immediately after the Nazis came to power. However, only from 1935 on, legislation on foreign currency aimed at...

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Poolability and the finance-growth nexus: a cautionary note

Schiavo, Stefano; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

The present contribution tests whether countries can be pooled when studying the financegrowth nexus. Overall, our results point toward a ‘pragmatic’ positive answer, though considerable heterogeneity is present among developing countries.

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Foreign direct investment, access to finance, and innovation activity in Chinese enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

recent firm level database. We pay particular attention to the impact of domestic access to finance. Our results show that … engage in own R&D or if they have good access to domestic finance. However, access to finance only plays a role for private … little significance for SOEs and is also independent of their access to finance. By contrast, it is an important channel …

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The paradox of monetary profits: an obstacle to understanding financial and economic Crisis?

Bruun, Charlotte; Heyn-Johnsen, Carsten - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

financial spheres. The monetary profit inducing capitalist production, emanates from the sphere of finance. In a world of …

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International Capital Flows and Financial Markets in Transition Economies: The Case of Croatia

Sohinger, Jasminka; Horvatin, Darko - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2006

Following the economic and political reforms international private capital started flowing into the emerging market economies of Central and Eastern Europe reducing the official capital flows to the region. The composition of private capital flows showed continuous dominance of direct equity...

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Skills and Talent of Immigrants: A Comparison between the European Union and the United States

Peri, Giovanni - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2005

The nineties has been a period of increasing migratory flows from less developed countries to industrialized nations. It is instructive to compare the two largest economies in the world, the European Union and the United States, in terms of the magnitude, trends and composition of their...

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