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Competition Laws, Governance, and Firm Value
Levine, Ross; Chen, Lin; Xie, Wensi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Do antitrust laws influence corporate valuations? We evaluate the relationship between firm value and laws limiting firms from engaging in anticompetitive agreements, abusing dominant positions, and conducting M&As that restrict competition. Using firm-level data from 99 countries over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585392
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Determinants of Long-Term Growth : A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach
Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2000
This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471000
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Social Security in Theory and Practice (I) : Facts and Political Theories
Mulligan, Casey B. - 1999
166 countries have some kind of public old age pension. What economic forces create and sustain old age Social Security as a public program? We document some of the internationally and historically common features of Social Security programs including explicit and implicit taxes on labor supply,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471676
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The International Transmission and Effects of Fiscal Policies
Frenkel, Jacob A. - 1986
In recent years the world economy has been subject to large and unsyncronized changes in fiscal policies, high and … builds on a two-country model of the world economy which is applied to the analysis of the transmission and effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477278
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Budget Deficits and Rates of Interest in the World Economy
Frenkel, Jacob A. - 1984
This paper deals with the international transmission of the effects of budget deficits on world rates of interest and … spending. The model assumes a two-country world within which capital markets are integrated, individuals behave rationally, and … horizon was finite. This formulation generates asimple pattern of aggregate behavior of the two-country world, and it assures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477738
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International Liquidity and Monetary Control
Frenkel, Jacob A. - 1983
This paper deals with the relations among international liquidity,the exchange-rate regime and the effectiveness of monetary policy. The first part of the paper contains an empirical study of the demand for international reserves. It is shown that (i) reserve holdings are a stable function of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477984
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Dynamic Adjustment and the Demand for International Reserves
Bilson, John F. O. - 1979
rapid. In addition, an economic theory of the speed of adjustment is presented and tested. The evidence suggests that … greater exchange rate flexibility has not significantly altered the reserve holding behavior of the world's central banks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478740
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Finance and Growth : Theory and Evidence
Levine, Ross - 2004
is not driving this relationship. Furthermore, theory and evidence imply that better developed financial systems ease …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467924
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International Financial Integration and Economic Growth
Edison, Hali J. - 2002
This paper uses new data and new econometric techniques to investigate the impact of international financial integration on economic growth and also to assess whether this relationship depends on the level of economic development, financial development, legal system development, government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469546
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Dating the Integration of World Equity Markets
Bekaert, Geert - 1998
Measuring the integration of world capital markets is notoriously difficult. For example, regulatory changes which … equity market becomes financially integrated with world capital markets. We find endogenous break dates that are very … markets are on average larger and more liquid than before; returns are more volatile and more highly correlated with the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472089