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International financial integration and entrepreneurship
Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has...
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GST reforms and intergovernmental considerations in India
Ahmad, Ehtisham; Poddar, Satya - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
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The auto-component supply chain in China and India: a benchmark study
Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
manufacturers in China and six in India; a range of general component suppliers in both countries, and on a detailed benchmarking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745200
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Globalization and the empowerment of women: an analysis of spatial dependence via trade and foreign direct investment
Neumayer, Eric; De Soysa, Indra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
general measures of a country’s openness to trade and foreign direct investment (FDI). Does it, however, also matter who one … in foreign countries with which the domestic country is connected via trade and FDI spill-over into higher rights among … trades with and where one receives FDI from? This article tests the hypothesis that higher women’s economic and social rights …
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The century of education
Morrison, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010, using perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto (2007) database. The correlation between the two sets of average years of schooling in 1960 is equal to 0.96. We...
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American economic development since the civil war or the virtue of education
Murtin, Fabrice - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper is the first empirical framework that explains the phenomenon of fast growth combined with the demographic transition occurring in the United States since 1860. I propose a structural model that unifies those events through the role of education: the key feature is that parental...
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Schooling, nation building and industrialization: a Gellnerian approach
Hauk, Esther; Ortega, Javier - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
We model a two-region country where value is created through bilateral production between masses and elites (bourgeois and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises productivity, particularly for matches between masses...
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Hundi/hawala: the problem of definition
Martin, Marina B.V. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
of functions, but whose central purpose is trade. …
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The European Securities and Markets Authority and institutional design for the EU financial market – a tale of two competences: Part (2) rules in action
Moloney, Niamh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
The purpose of this article, and of its earlier companion article (Part (1) Rule-making, 12 European Business Organization Law Review (2011) p. 41), is to examine the implications of the new European Securities and Markets Authority which was established in January 2011. In the wake of the...
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The Euro crisis: a historical perspective
Mourlon-Druol, Emmanuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
In this research report IDEAS explores the current euro crisis by looking at the debates preceding the conception of the euro. How can the early days of EU monetary cooperation help us understand today's predicament? And what lessons can we draw from them for the euro? Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol is...
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