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The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Void

Herkenhoff, Philipp - 2020

international outsourcing and most strongly so for sourcing from low-regulation countries. Motivated by these findings, we introduce …

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Interjurisdictional Linkages and the Scope for Interventionist Legal Harmonization

Baniak, Andrzej; Grajzl, Peter - 2014

We study the desirability of interventionist harmonization of legal standards across multiple, mutually interdependent jurisdictions which strive to adapt law to their local conditions as well as to synchronize it with other jurisdictions. In a setting where jurisdictions are privately informed...

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What Explains Sovereign Debt Litigation?

Schumacher, Julian - 2015

We study the occurrence of holdout litigation in the context of sovereign defaults. The number of creditor lawsuits against foreign governments has strongly increased over the past decades, but there is a large variation across crisis events. Why are some defaults followed by a “run to the...

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The UN Goldstone Report and Retraction: An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015

The United Nations Goldstone Report criminalized self-defense against state-sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone Report to study whether support for the Goldstone principle of criminalization of self-defense...

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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies - Evidence from a New Index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2021

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars - 2021

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments’ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars - 2021

The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...

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Regulation in Swiss Cantons : Data for One Century

Luechinger, Simon - 2016

We present and illustrate novel data on more than a century of regulation in Switzerland. We provide quantitative … in the annual changes to such regulation from 1908-2013. We measure the stock of regulation by the number of enactments … in the stock of regulation and the extent and development of regulatory activity. Regulatory activity generally increased …

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Market Risk Management in a Post-Basel II Regulatory Environment

Urosevic, Branko - 2017

risk include an additional stress component introduced by the recent Basel 2.5 regulation. Our optimization with the Basel …

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Wedges : Distribution, Distortions, and Market Integration

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2017

This paper proposes a stylized model of policy determination and imperfect international integration. A country-specific policy wedge corrects labor market imperfections and/or redistributes welfare across differently wealthy agents. Capital market integration with the rest of the world, indexed...

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