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The impact of liberalisation and globalisation on income inequality in developing and transitional economies

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 2003

the policy drive towards domestic deregulation and external liberalisation. The paper concludes by analysing the …

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Did globalization influence credit market deregulation?

Eppinger, Peter S.; Potrafke, Niklas - 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 …

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Free to fail? : paternalistic preferences in the united states

Bartling, Björn; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Hermes, Henning; … - 2023

In this paper, we evaluate the efficiency of the French State aid plan for broadband deployment, the Plan France Très Haut Débit. According to State aid rules, public subsidies should not be substitute for private investment and should target areas with market failures. We estimate a...

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Emotions and political unrest

Passarelli, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2013

view of what is fair taking into account the current state of the world. If fewer aggregate resources are available …

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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Giammario, Impullitti; Prat, Julien - 2014

Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....

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Economic liberalization and savings rates

Mansori, Kashif S. - 2001

This paper considers the possibility that economic liberalization, by which is meant a reduction in tariffs, quotas, capital controls, and other government distortions of international transactions, may reduce private savings rates. A two stage approach is used to analyze a panel data set...

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The nexus between economic freedom and economic growth in the LDCs : an empirical analysis for the period 2000-2021

Afonso, António; Blanco-Arana, M. Carmen - 2023

Economic freedom and economic growth can be connected in most countries, but it is often necessary to specify those aspects of economic freedom that can foster economic growth. This paper examines the nexus between economic freedom and economic growth in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)...

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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars - 2010

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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Income inequality, capitalism and ethno-linguistic fractionalization

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2015 - Version 24 December 2014

We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our results suggest that there is no robust...

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Economic freedom and religion : an empirical investigation

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

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