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threats, corruption, and other relevant controls. While growth falls with higher levels of military spending, given the values …
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This paper investigates the impact of the history of crises on macroeconomic performance. We first study the impact of past banking crises on the probability of a future banking crisis. Applying data for 1980‐2010 for all countries for which the required information is available, controlling...
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obstacles associated with corruption and weak institutions. We model these circumstances in a principal-agent framework with … economic corruption as an indicator of the strength of property right enforcement within a given country. We compare corruption … levels for a large cross section of countries in 1989 to subsequent FDI flows from 1990 to 1999. We find that corruption is …
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, however, is that there seem to be certain "threshold" levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs …
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This paper investigates whether the diversity of activities conducted by financial institutionsinfluences their market valuations. We find that there is a diversification discount: The marketvalues financial conglomerates that engage in multiple activities, e.g., lending and non-lendingfinancial...
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