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Kyoto protocol cooperation: does government corruption facilitate environmental lobbying?

Fredriksson, Per G.; Neumayer, Eric; Ujhelyi, Gergely - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Does environmental lobbying affect the probability of environmental treaty ratification? Does the level of government corruption play a role for the success of such lobbying? In this paper, we propose that a more corruptible government may be more responsive to the demands of the environmental...

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Is there an impact of household computer ownership on children's educational attainment in Britain?

Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

taken at ages 16 (GCSEs) and 18 (A levels). The data show a significant positive associatio n between PC ownership and both … successfully completing three or more A levels, conditional on having passed at least one A level. …

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A multi-level approach to understanding the impact of cyber crime on the financial sector

Lagazio, Monica; Sherif, Nazneen; Cushman, Mike - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

tangible and intangible factors, affect cyber crime cost and occur at different levels of society and value network … financial companies but rather by the way financial companies choose to go about in protecting their business interests and … overall sector and society levels, potentially driving the cost of cyber crime even further upwards. Unwanted consequences …

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International trade, minimum quality standards and the prisoners' dilemma

Petropoulou, Dimitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Unilateral minimum quality standards are endogenously determined as the outcome of a non-cooperative standard … standards are shown to give rise to a Prisoners' Dilemma structure in the incentives of policy-makers leading to inefficient … policy outcomes. The role of minimum quality standards as non-tariff barriers is examined and the scope for mutual gains from …

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Does the ‘California effect’ operate across borders? trading- and investing-up in automobile emission standards

Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

standards towards levels found in higher-regulating jurisdictions. Although a number of previous large sample quantitative … components from developing countries to countries with more stringent automobile emission standards are found to be associated … with more stringent domestic emission standards. Investing-up dynamics are also apparent, with aggregate inward foreign …

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A historical analysis of core financial services infrastructure: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT)

Scott, Susan V.; Zachariadis, M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Research in this article traces the origins of a not-for-profit financial institution the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (S.W.I.T.). Swift is a core part of the financial services infrastructure and widely regarded as the most secure trusted third party network in...

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Corruption, the resource curse and genuine saving

Dietz, Simon; Neumayer, Eric; de Soysa, Indra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Genuine saving measures net investment in produced, natural and human capital. It is a necessary condition for weak sustainable development that genuine saving not be persistently negative. However, according to data provided by the World Bank, resource-rich countries are systematically failing...

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Why has the British national minimum wage had little or no impact on employment?

Metcalf, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

discussed wage setting, coverage, monopsony, international labour standards, inspection and compliance and the interaction … frictions; offsets via the tax credit system; incomplete compliance; improvements in productivity; an increase in the relative …

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Job and wage mobility in a search model with non-compliance (exemptions) with the minimum wage

Eckstein, Zvi; Ge, Suqin; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

regulations and imperfect compliance in a job search model encompassing job mobility and on-the-job wage growth as potential … good fit for the observed levels and trends of the main job and wage mobility data, and in particular it replicates very … of the observed wage growth. Counterfactual experiments of increases in the minimum wage and/or compliance deliver small …

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Do membership benefits buy regulatory compliance?: an empirical analysis of EU directives 1978-1999

Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

period from 1978 to 1999. Our results provide qualified support for the idea that benefits positively influence compliance …. We find that greater intra-EU trade dependence and voting power in European institutions relative to population size are …

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