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What Drives Financial Development? A Meta-Regression Analysis
Doucouliagos, Chris - 2020
This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results based on 1900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share of GDP). Domestic...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly : Impact of Negative Interest Rates and QE on the Profitability and Risk-Taking of 1600 German Banks
Florian, Urbschat - 2019
about the pass-through of monetary policy. On the one hand, negative rates could lead to declining bank profitability making …
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Profit Shifting in the EU : Evidence from Germany
Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2021
correlation between the home country tax rate of a parent and the net of tax profitability of its German affiliate that is … increase in the profitability of the German affiliate. On the outbound side of German FDI, the data provides some evidence that … tax rate changes in the host country lead to a stronger change in after-tax profitability for affiliates that are wholly …
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The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-Class Franchise
Becker, Sascha O. - 2019
Did the Prussian three-class franchise, which politically over-represented the economic elite, affect policy-making? Combining MP-level political orientation, derived from all roll call votes in the Prussian parliament (1867-1903), with constituency characteristics, we analyze how local vote...
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Creativity Over Time and Space - a Historical Analysis of European Cities
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido - 2021
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...
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Wealth-Income Ratios in Free Market Capitalism : Switzerland, 1900-2020
Baselgia, Enea; Martinez, Isabel - 2022
We estimate the ratio of private wealth to national income, βpt, for Switzerland from 1900 to 2020. Our results indicate that over the 20th century, βpt did not follow a U-shaped pattern as in most European countries. Instead, its was exceptionally stable at around 500%. We argue that this...
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Brothers in arms: An experiment on the alliance puzzle
Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2010
would be expected from non-cooperative theory. Second, this possible solidarity among 'brothers in arms' when fighting …
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EU Solidarity and Policy in Fighting Infectious Diseases : State of Play, Obstacles, Citizen Preferences and Ways Forward
Ruijter, Anniek de - 2020
, stockpiling and allocation of medical countermeasures is a key component of true European solidarity, besides maintaining the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836717
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Will Germany's Temporary VAT Tax Rates Cut as Part of the COVID-19 Fiscal Stimulus Package Boost Consumption and Growth?
Funke, Michael; Terasa, Raphael - 2021
On 3 June 2020, the German government announced a EUR 130 billion fiscal stimulus package to stimulate market demand and jumpstart the economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the spring of 2020. The most prominent measure of this package is an unconventional fiscal policy in the...
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Does Democracy Make Taller Men? Cross-Country European Evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021
We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include models accounting for several confounders, regional and...
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