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The Impact of Financial (De-)Regulation on Current Account Balances
Moral-Benito, Enrique - 2014
Both global imbalances and financial market (de-)regulation feature prominently among the potential causes of the … investigate the relationship between financial market regulation and current account balances, an area for which limited empirical … current account balance. In contrast, bank privatization and securities market deregulation tend to raise current account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043215
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Did Globalization Influence Credit Market Deregulation?
Eppinger, Peter - 2015
We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is … measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of … positive correlation between globalization and credit market deregulation. We account for reverse causality by using predicted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021420
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Vertical Market Power in Interconnected Natural Gas and Electricity Markets
Marks, Levi - 2017
consider improvements to market design and regulation as these two energy markets become increasingly interlinked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943388
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Airport Noise Regulation, Airline Service Quality, and Social Welfare
Brueckner, Jan K.; Girvin, Raquel - 2021
This paper explores the impact of airport noise regulation on airline service quality and airfares. It also … investigation into the economics of airport noise regulation using a model where the interests of the key relevant stakeholders are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317378
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China's Capital Flight : Pre- and Post-Crisis Experiences
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2015
We study China's illicit capital flow and document a change in its pattern. Specifically, we observe that China's capital flight, especially the one measured by trade misinvoicing, exhibits a weakened response in the post-2007 period to the covered interest disparity, which is a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011434
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Financial Reform and Banking Crises
Shehzad, Choudhry Tanveer - 2013
We examine the impact of various dimensions of financial reform on the likelihood of systemic and non-systemic banking crises. Using new financial reform measures for a large sample of developing and developed countries for the period 1973 to 2002, our multivariate probit modeling results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095277
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984498
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Globalization, Economic Freedom and Human Rights
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316142
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Political Capitalism : The Interaction between Income Inequality, Economic Freedom and Democracy
Krieger, Tim - 2016
In this contribution we study the relationship between income inequality and economic freedom for a panel of 100 countries for the 1971-2010 period. From a panel causality study we find that income inequality has a negative causal effect on economic freedom, while causation does not run in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999751
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Cross-Border Banking in Regulated Markets : Is Financial Integration Desirable?
Haufler, Andreas - 2016
We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978391