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Differences in Governance Practices between U.S. and Foreign Firms : Measurement, Causes, and Consequences
Aggarwal, Reena - 2007
Using an index which increases as a firm adopts more governance attributes, we find that 12.7% of foreign firms have a higher index than matching U.S. firms. The best predictor for whether a foreign firm adopts more governance attributes than a comparable U.S. firm is whether the firm comes from...
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Private Benefits of Control : An International Comparison
Dyck, Alexander - 2002
We construct a measure of the private benefits of control in 39 countries based on 412 control transactions between 1990 and 2000. We find that the value of control ranges between 4% and +65%, with an average of 14 percent. As predicted by theory, in countries where private benefits of control...
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Corporate Control around the World
Aminadav, Gur - 2016
-law countries. And while equity blocks are commonplace across widely-held firms all around the world and across all legal families …
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Does Inflation Targeting Increase Output Volatility? An International Comparison of Policymakers' Preferences and Outcomes
Cecchetti, Stephen G. - 1999
Aggregate shocks that move output and inflation in opposite directions create a tradeoff between output and inflation variability, forcing central bankers to make a choice. Differences in the degree of accommodation of shocks lead to disparate variability outcomes, revealing national central...
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Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus : Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists
Avery, Christopher - 2020
This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic that have been influential in recent policy decisions. There is tremendous opportunity for social scientists to advance the relevant literature as new and better data becomes available to...
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Efficiency and the Bear : Short Sales and Markets around the World
Goetzmann, William N. - 2003
We analyze cross-sectional and time series information from forty-seven equity markets around the world, to consider …
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International Data on Educational Attainment Updates and Implications
Barro, Robert J. - 2000
provide projections for 2000. We discuss the estimation method for the measures of educational attainment and relate our …
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Heterogeneous Frictional Costs Across Industries in Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2016
While there has been significant research to explore the determinants (and frictions) of foreign direct investment (FDI), past literature primarily focuses on country-wide FDI patterns with little examination of sectoral heterogeneity in FDI. Anecdotally, there is substantial sectoral...
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The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect
Costinot, Arnaud - 2016
The home-market effect, first hypothesized by Linder (1961) and later formalized by Krugman (1980), is the idea that countries with larger demand for some products at home tend to have larger sales of the same products abroad. In this paper, we develop a simple test of the home-market effect...
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Newer Need Not be Better : Evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators Using Nighttime Lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2016
Penn World Tables and of the World Development Indicators better estimate true income per capita. We find that revisions of …-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World Development … Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as are any recent vintages of the Penn World Tables …
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