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Whither corruption? : a quantitative survey of the literature on corruption and growth
Campos, Nauro; Dimova, Ralitza; Saleh, Ahmed - 2010
Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses metaanalysis techniques to systematically … evaluate the evidence addressing this question. It uses a data set comprising 460 estimates of the effect of corruption on … for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors' affiliation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009304317
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Review of "This time is different : eight centuries of financial folly by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff"
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2011
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly is one of the best, if not the best, books ever written on the history of financial crises. It presents a comprehensive survey of financial crises utilizing an extraordinary database of macroeconomic and financial series. The massive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008900898
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Optimal transfers and participation decisions in international environmental agreements
Carraro, Carlo (contributor); Eyckmans, Johan (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003356034
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The dynamics of carbon and energy intensity in a model of endogenous technical change
Bosetti, Valentina (contributor); Carraro, Carlo (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003356667
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Crises, what crises?
Campos, Nauro (contributor); Hsiao, Cheng (contributor);  … - 2006
Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003348532
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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009
, however, is that there seem to be certain "threshold" levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831857
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International terrorism, political instability and the escalation effect
Campos, Nauro; Gassebner, Martin - 2009
What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9/11 remain elusive. The careful investigation of the relative roles of economic and political conditions did little to change the fact that existing econometric estimates diverge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824948
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International taxation and multinational firm location decisions
Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Huizinga, Harry; Laeven, Luc; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846883
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The emerging global financial architecture : tracing and evaluating the new patterns of the Trilemma's configurations
Aizenman, Joshua; Chinn, Menzie David; Itō, Hiro - 2009
Using the indexes we developed (Aizenman, Chinn, and Ito, 2008) to measure the degree of the three policy choices countries make with respect to the trilemma: exchange rate stability, monetary independence, and capital account openness, we investigate the normative questions pertaining to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854752
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Assessing the emerging global financial architecture : measuring the trilemma's configurations over time
Aizenman, Joshua; Chinn, Menzie David; Itō, Hiro - 2009
We develop a methodology that intuitively characterizes the choices countries have made with respect to the trilemma during the post Bretton-Woods period. The paper first outlines the new metrics for measuring the degree of exchange rate flexibility, monetary independence, and capital account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854880