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exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s financial and insurance services. No trade barriers are found for the bulk … suggests that post-Brexit disruptions of the U.K.'s export of financial and insurance services may be minor …
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In this study, we examine how insurance affects income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa, using data from 42 countries … Palma ratio. Two insurance premiums are employed, namely: life insurance and non-life insurance. The empirical evidence is … based on the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). Life insurance increases the Gini coefficient and increasing life …
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financial systems), efficiency (banking and financial systems), activity (banking and financial systems) and size, play out in …
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. Practical implications - The presence of strong links among African banking sectors may present little opportunity for portfolio …
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The dominance of English common-law countries in prospects for financial development in the legal-origins debate has been debunked by recent findings. Using exchange rate regimes and economic/monetary integration oriented hypotheses, this paper proposes an "inflation uncertainty theory" in...
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), financial system efficiency (at banking and financial system levels), financial system activity (from banking system and … banking system efficiency, banking system activity and financial system activity. Moreover, the positive effects are …
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Empirical studies of antidumping activity focus almost exclusively on the period since 1980. This paper puts recent U.S. antidumping experience in historical context by studying the determinants of annual case filings over the past half century. The conventional view that few antidumping cases...
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energy/environmental tax systems in Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and Vietnam suggests that there is substantial scope for policy …
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Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis that is accompanied in recent years by a withdrawal from trade integration processes. We study the determinants of productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four...
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''s preference parameters for Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom are statistically different from the one implied by the commonly …
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