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A survey of securities laws and enforcement

Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio - 2004

"Lopez-de-Silanes examines the theoretical and empirical literature pertaining to securities laws and their enforcement by regulators and courts to establish what is known and what is yet unclear. Recent empirical research in the field has established that law matters. Mandatory disclosure...

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Volatility and Growth

Hnatkovska, Viktoria - 2004

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Georgia : Skills Mismatch and Unemployment, Labor Market Challenges

World Bank - 2013

This paper reviews labor market performance in Georgia, and examines the link between labor market outcomes and poverty. At over 15 percent, the unemployment rate in the country is high by European standards. Georgia faces three main labor market issues: (a) underutilization of labor resources,...

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From Infection to Inflation

World Bank - 2023

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have faced extraordinary challenges over the last three years that reverted the social gains of the previous two decades. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in severe health impacts and a reversal in many of its socioeconomic gains. The unprecedented disruption...

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Zooming in : from aggregate volatility to income distribution

Calderón, César - 2009

"In contrast with a growing literature on the drivers of aggregate volatility in developing countries, its consequences … aggregate volatility has a regressive, asymmetric, and non linear impact, as reflected in the strong influence of extreme output …

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Does higher openness cause more real exchange rate volatility ?

Calderón, César - 2009

exchange rate volatility, and (b) trade and financial openness may have a potential role of mitigating and/or amplifying real … openness to exacerbate or mitigate real exchange rate volatility. The authors collected information on the real effective …) High real exchange rate volatility is the result of highly volatile productivity shocks, and sharp oscillations in monetary …

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The elimination of Madagascar's vanilla marketing board, ten years on

Cadot, Olivier - 2006

spectacularly narrowed down, but this effect is dwarfed by that of world-price volatility. A counterfactual analysis based on a …

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Taking the bad with the good : volatility of foreign portfolio investment and financial constraints of small firms

Knill, April M. - 2005

"The author examines the impact of the volatility of foreign portfolio investment on the financial constraints of small …, the author finds that the volatility of foreign portfolio investment is only significantly associated with a decreased … volatility of foreign portfolio investment only hinders the growth of small firms significantly in periods when nations are …

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Economic volatility and returns to education in Venezuela : 1992-2002

Sakellariou, Chris N. - 2004

"Preliminary evidence suggests that the rates of return to education in Venezuela have been declining since the 1970s. Patrinos and Sakellariou rigorously estimate the returns to education in Venezuela for the period 1992-2002 and link them to earlier available estimates from the 1980s. They use...

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Liquidity needs and vulnerability to financial underdevelopment

Raddatz, Claudio E. - 2003

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