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Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018
This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country …. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and … government. We estimate the dynamics of press freedom around both failed and successful coups and find that although press …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908729
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Political repression and child labor : theory and empirical evidence
Maffei, Sandro; Raabe, Nikolai; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2004
more lenient and child labor thus more prevalent than in countries enjoying political freedom. We test this implication and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261268
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245626
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Satisfaction with Amenities and Taste for Revolt in the Middle East
Gholipour, Hassan F.; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2023
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between individuals’ satisfaction with amenities and environmental quality and taste for revolt in the Middle East. Using recent World Value Survey data (WVS7, 2017-2021) from Egypt and Iraq (which have been experiencing severe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347827
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Structural Reforms and Income Inequality : Who Benefits from Market-Oriented Reforms?
Gründler, Klaus - 2020
We examine how structural reforms relate to income inequality. We employ many indicators of structural reforms and use data for market and net income inequality. The dataset includes up to 135 countries since 1960. The results do not suggest that market-oriented structural reforms were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843419
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Who (Else) Benefits from Electricity Deregulation? Coal Prices, Natural Gas and Price Discrimination
Hughes, Jonathan E. - 2019
, distributional effects have been more difficult to assess. In the electricity sector, deregulation has vastly increased information … impact of deregulation. This also means policies that change fuel prices can have substantially different effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892212
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Entry Barriers and the Labor Market Outcomes of Incumbent Workers : Evidence from a Deregulation Reform in the German Crafts Sector
Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019
We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892300
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Regulation, Financial Crises, and Liberalization Traps
Marchionne, Francesco - 2019
To reconcile the mixed empirical results, we develop a theoretical model whose main implication is a concave impact of regulation on the probability of a crisis. We test this relationship by applying a Probit model of a non-linear specification to annual data from 1999 to 2011 drawn from 132...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866557
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Softening the Blow : U.S. State-Level Banking Deregulation and Sectoral Reallocation after the China Trade Shock
Ruslanova, Lilia; Hoffmann, Mathias - 2021
U.S. state-level banking deregulation during the 1980’s mitigated the impact of the China trade shock (CTS) on local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243243
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Disclosure Deregulation of Quarterly Reporting
Behrmann, Vanessa; Hornuf, Lars; Zimmermann, Jochen - 2022
In this article we investigate the deregulation efforts resulting from the 2015 transposition of the EU’s Transparency … the deregulation on average increase information asymmetry and reduce firm value. We find that this effect is stronger for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323972