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Politics-Business Co-evolution Paths : Workers’ Organization and Capitalist Concentration
Belloc, Marianna - 2012
Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between … this view with a different approach based on the hypothesis that politics and corporate governance co-evolve, generating … governance. We argue that this hypothesis provides a more convincing explanation of the past histories of major capitalist …
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Dragnet-Controls and Government Ideology
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
In many European countries established leftwing and rightwing parties have been threatened by policy convergence and, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences dragnet-controls - controls of persons conducted by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892136
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Growing Apart? A Tale of Two Republics : Estonia and Georgia
Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2021
of capital (extensive growth). We infer that advances in education at all levels, good governance, and institutional … remains marred by various problems related to weak governance in the public and private spheres …
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Green Governments
Potrafke, Niklas; Wuthrich, Kaspar - 2021
We examine how Green governments influence macroeconomic, education, and environmental outcomes. We exploit that the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan gave rise to an unanticipated change in government in the German state Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2011. Using the synthetic control method, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227483
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On the Elasticity of Substitution between Labor and ICT and IP Capital and Traditional Capital
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2022
I estimate CES aggregate production functions for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Spain using data from the EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243755
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Economic Policy Uncertainty : Persistence and Cross-Country Linkages
Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel - 2020
This paper provides new evidence on the stochastic behaviour of the EPU (Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index constructed by Baker et al. (2016) in six of the biggest economies (Canada, France, Japan, US, Ireland, and Sweden) over the period from January 1985 to October 2019. In particular,...
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The Political Economy of the G20 Agenda on Financial Regulation
Schuknecht, Ludger - 2020
The paper empirically examines the implementation record of international financial regulation of the banking sector. The study finds that the size of the banking sector and the presence of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) are positively associated with a stronger implementation...
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Affecting Public Support for Economic Policies : Evidence from a Survey Experiment About Rent Control in Germany
Dolls, Mathias; Schüle, Paul; Windsteiger, Lisa - 2023
We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014354010
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Politicians: be killed or survive
Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - 2008
: extended institutional and governance quality, democracy, voice and accountability, a well functioning system of law and order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264506
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The politician and his banker
Hainz, Christa; Hakenes, Hendrik - 2007
Should the European Union grant state aid through an institution like the European Investment bank? This paper evaluates the efficiency of different measures for granting state aid. We use a theoretical model with firms that differ in their creditworthiness and compare different types of...
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