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How Does the Flow of Remittances Affect the Trade Balance of the Middle East and North Africa?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2016

Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances worldwide over the last three decades. The region has also had the highest non-oil external trade balance deficit among developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in...

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Weapons of Choice

Dreher, Axel - 2015

This article investigates the effect of natural resources on whether ethno-political groups choose to pursue their goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that whether or not the extraction of fossil fuels sparks...

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The Impact of Democracy and Press Freedom on Corruption : Conditionality Matters

Kalenborn, Christine; Lessmann, Christian - 2021

This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical … is a certain degree of press freedom in a country, vice versa. Our policy implication is that democratic reforms are more …

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One Size Fits All? Decentralization, Corruption, and the Monitoring of Bureaucrats

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021

-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … freedom, whereas countries without effective monitoring suffer from decentralization. Our policy implication is that a free …

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Economic Freedom and Religion : An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L. - 2016

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries averaged over the period 2001-2010. Simple correlations show that …

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Regulation and Barriers to Trade in Telecommunications Services in the European Union

Cave, Martin E. - 2009

Recent advances in telecommunications, particularly using fibre technologies, permit many services based on data-processing to be performed anywhere in the world. They thus become tradable and subject to the laws of comparative advantage. A good example is data-processing within large...

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Will the U.S. And EU Telecommunications Policies Converge? A Survey

Vogelsang, Ingo - 2014

Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local loops is largely deregulated in the U.S. but continues to be regulated in the EU. Or, the U.S. has an elaborate universal service policy with a set of universal service funds and...

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Capital Structure and Regulation in U.S. Local Telephony : An Exploratory Econometric Study

Resende, Marcelo - 2021

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...

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Can there Be a Wave-Like Association between Economic Growth and Inequality? Theory and Lessons for East Asia from the Middle East

Gangopadhyay, Partha - 2012

High income growth in many countries in East Asia and the Middle East has been accompanied by increasing income inequality and widening gaps between rich and poor, and urban and rural. It is therefore it is important to examine the interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This...

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Natural Resources, Volatility, and Inclusive Growth : Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa

Arezki, Rabah - 2013

This paper takes stock of the economic performance of resource rich countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the past forty years. While those countries have maintained high levels of income per capita, they have performed poorly when going beyond the assessment based on...

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