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Future European Alliance - Europe as a Flexible Democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - 2019
A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892304
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Populism and Social Polarization in European Democracies
Ginsburgh, Victor - 2020
The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826060
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Future European Alliance - Europe as a Flexible Democracy
Frey, Bruno S.; Steuernagel, Armin; Friedrich, Jonas - 2018
A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932020
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What actually happens to EU directives in the member states?: A cross-country cross-sector view on national transposition instruments
Treutlein, Daniela - 2007
This study empirically investigates the transposition patterns of EU directives in all 15 member states and in six major sectors of the economy with a view on analysing the political-economic reasons behind sector and national differences in the legal transposition instruments used. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264210
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Preliminary references: Analyzing the determinants that made the ECJ the powerful court it is
Hornuf, Lars; Voigt, Stefan - 2012
country, corporate tax rate, familiarity with EU law, and tenure of democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281792
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Chinese Aid and Democratic Values in Latin America
Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022
that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional aid, thus weakening democracy promotion. This study aims to deepen our … Survey, we use an instrumental variable approach to test the effect of Chinese aid on attitudes toward democracy in 18 Latin … democracy. We also find that individuals who have a positive attitude towards China are more likely to value democracy. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081428
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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 cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310764
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Freeze! Financial Sanctions and Bank Responses
Efing, Matthias; Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2018
We study the effects of financial sanctions on cross-border credit supply. Using a differences-in-differences approach to analyze eleven sanctions episodes between 2002 and 2015, we find that banks located in Germany reduce their positions in countries with sanctioned entities by 38%. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018115
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Does membership in international organizations increase governments' credibility?: testing the effects of delegating powers
Dreher, Axel; Voigt, Stefan - 2008
This paper analyzes whether nation-state governments can increase their credibility by becoming members of international organizations. Credibility is an important asset because it determines the real interest rate and is expected to have an important impact on investment and growth. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264350
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Membership has its privileges: The effect of membership in international organizations on FDI
Dreher, Axel; Mikosch, Heiner; Voigt, Stefan - 2010
We argue that membership in International Organizations (IOs) is an important determinant of FDI inflows. To the extent that membership restricts a country from pursuing policies that are harmful to investors, it can signal low political risk. Using data over the 1971-2005 period, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274768