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A Reflection of History: Fluctuations in Greek Sovereign Risk between 1914 and 1929

Christodoulaki, Olga; Cho, Haeran; Fryzlewicz, Piotr - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Time series of daily data for Greek sovereign risk have been compiled and analysed statistically to shed light on the way that historical events, including political and institutional changes, determined the creditworthiness of the Greek government on the London stock market from the start of...

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The Greek Paradox of Falling Competitiveness and Weak Institutions in a High GDP Growth Rate Context (1995-2008)

Pelagidis, Theodore - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

. We offer a specific explanation of the current unfortunate state of the economy briefly considering avenues of necessary …

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The Greek paradox of falling competitiveness and weak institutions in a high GDP growth rate context (1995-2008)

Pelagidis, Theodore - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

. We offer a specific explanation of the current unfortunate state of the economy briefly considering avenues of necessary …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745020

Changes in wage inequality

Machin, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We examine trends in wage inequality in the US and other countries over the past four decades. We show that there has been a secular increase in the 90-50 wage differential in the US and the UK since the late 1970s. By contrast the 50-10 differential rose mainly in the 1980s and flattened or...

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Ideology and economic activity

Morishima, Michio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1986

with such institutions as the state, family structure, etc., constitute the superstructure of the society, as being no more …

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A reflection of history: fluctuations in Greek sovereign risk between 1914 and 1929

Christodoulaki, Olga; Cho, Haeran; Fryzlewicz, Piotr - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

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How do domestic attributes affect international spillovers of CO2-efficiency?

Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Although there is evidence that CO2-efficiency enhancing innovations in one country diffuse into other countries to contribute to the goals of climate change mitigation, very little is known about the conditions under which such international spillovers are most likely to take place. Our...

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A model of equilibrium institutions

Guimaraes, Bernardo; Sheedy, Kevin D. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Institutions that serve the interests of an elite are often cited as an important reason for poor economic performance …. This paper builds a model of institutions that allocate resources and power to maximize the payoff of an elite, but where … any group that exerts sufficient fighting effort can launch a rebellion that destroys the existing institutions. The …

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Cross-country determinants of life satisfaction: exploring different determinants across groups in society

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper explores a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90,000 observations in 70 countries. We distinguish four groups of aggregate variables as potential determinants of satisfaction: political, economic, institutional, and human development...

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A proposal for an open-source financial risk model

Ho Hwang, Jong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

risk information in the global economy. The paper examines the current state of the financial risk framework, notes its … financial institutions, first to attempt to optimize the risk-return profile of mostly private economic rent-seeking entities …

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