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Antidumping as strategic trade policy under asymmetric information

Matschke, Xenia; Schöttner, Anja - 2008

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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending : theory and empirical evidence

Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009

the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory. -- IMF conditionality ; delegation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003908576

The golden hello and political transitions

Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012

have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to …We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version … transitions ; democracy ; autocracy ; IMF ; World Bank …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629705

What determines the finance-growth nexus? : An endogenous growth model and empirical evidence

Graff, Michael (contributor); Karmann, Alexander (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

An endogenous growth model on finance and growth is formulated, and empirical analyses are conducted. The model exhibits structural shifts and breaks caused by institutional changes, suggesting that a linear approach is inadequate. To address this point empirically, we fit data for 90 countries...

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Mergers and government policy

Sapozhnikov, Margarita - 2006

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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? : the impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor) - 2007

The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test whether regulations robustly deter firm entry into the markets. Our results show that some regulations are indeed important determinants of entrepreneurial activity. Specifically,...

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Does high inflation cause central bankers to lose their job? : evidence based on a new data set

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor); … - 2007

This paper introduces new data on the term in office of central bank governors in 137 countries for 1970-2004. Our panel models show that the probability that a central bank governor is replaced in a particular year is positively related to the share of the term in office elapsed, political and...

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The devil is in the shadow : do institutions affect income and productivity or only official income and official productivity?

Dreher, Axel; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich - 2007

This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...

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The inverse domino effect : are economic reforms contagious?

Gassebner, Martin (contributor); Gaston, Noel G. (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines whether a country's economic reforms are affected by reforms adopted by other countries. A simple model of economic reforms is developed to motivate the econometric work. Unsurprisingly, the model predicts that reforms are more likely when factors of production are...

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Does US aid buy UN general assembly votes? : A disaggregated analysis

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor); … - 2006

Using panel data for 143 countries over the period 1973 - 2002, this paper empirically analyzes the influence of US aid on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. We use disaggregated aid data to account for the fact that various forms of aid may differ in their ability to induce political...

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