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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction

Morck, Randall K. - 2005

This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, William J. - 1997

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...

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Central Bank Behavior and the Strategy of Monetary Policy : Observations From Six Industrialized Countries

Bernanke, Ben - 1992

Using a simple case study approach. this paper compares the conduct and performance of monetary policy in six Industrialized countries since the breakup of the Bretton Woods system. Our purpose is to develop fruitful hypotheses that might usefully be explored in subsequent, more formal research....

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Productivity and Machinery Investment : A Long Run Look 1870-1980

De Long, J. Bradford - 1991

Over the past century the long-run growth of six economies shows a strong association between investment in machinery and economic growth that holds both within and across nations and periods. A similar strong association holds for the post-world War II period for a broader cross section of...

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Characterizing Predictable Components in Excess Returns on Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets

Bekaert, Geert - 1991

The paper characterizes predictable components in excess rates of returns on major equity and foreign exchange markets using lagged excess returns, dividend yields, and forward premiums as instruments. Vector autoregressive techniques demonstrate one-step-ahead predictability and provide implied...

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Tastes and Technology in a Two-Country Model of the Business Cycle : Explaining International Comovements

Stockman, Alan C. - 1990

This paper studies the international transmission of business cycles by developing a two-country real business-cycle model and confronting it with a broad set of empirical observations. These observations include variances and covariances of output, labor, consumption, employment, and investment...

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Post-War Economic Growth in the Group-of-Five Countries : A New Analysis

Boskin, Michael J. - 1990

Group-of-Five (G-5) countries: France, West Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and United states. It is assumed that all … France, West Germany and Japan, and between 8 and 10 percent per annum for the U.K. and the U.S. for the period under study …, the productive efficiencies of France, West Germany and Japan rose rapidly from less than 40 percent of the U.S. level in …

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Central Banks : Evolution and Innovation in Historical Perspective

Bordo, Michael D. - 2017

Central banks have evolved for close to four centuries. This paper argues that for two centuries central banks caught up to the strategies followed by the leading central banks of the era; the Bank of England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Federal Reserve in the twentieth...

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Anomalies Abroad : Beyond Data Mining

Lu, Xiaomeng - 2017

A pre-specified set of nine prominent U.S. equity return anomalies produce significant alphas in Canada, France …, Germany, Japan, and the U.K. All of the anomalies are consistently significant across these five countries, whose developed …

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Central Bank Credibility : An Historical and Quantitative Exploration

Bordo, Michael D. - 2015

In this paper we provide empirical measures of central bank credibility and augment these with historical narratives from eleven countries. To the extent we are able to apply reliable institutional information we can also indirectly assess their role in influencing the credibility of the...

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