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Gender equality in Muslim-majority countries
Gouda, Moamen; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
is more pronounced in countries where Islam is the source of legislation. Constitutions changed in only four Muslim …
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Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities : a reply and update
Potrafke, Niklas - 2012
democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results - and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam …. He establishes his conclusion by excluding the heartland of Islam from the estimation sample. For his estimates, Hanusch … in the heartland of Islam. -- political institutions ; Islam …
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IMF surveillance and financial markets : a political economy analysis
Fratzscher, Marcel; Reynaud, Julien - 2010
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in the process of re-inventing itself with bilateral and multilateral surveillance emerging as a key function. The paper analyses how IMF surveillance announcements may be influenced by political power that member countries exert at the IMF. First, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976542
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The politics of IMF forecasts
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Marchesi, Silvia (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003620169
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Politics and IMF conditionality
Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2013 - This version: June 2013
Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for continued installments of desperately needed loans, governments must comply with austere policy changes. Many have suggested, however, that politically important countries face rather...
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Who makes the rules of globalization?
Deardorff, Alan V. (contributor) - 2004
In this paper I argue that profit-maximizing firms, even though they contribute to social welfare when they compete in the market, may not do so when they influence the political process. In particular, I suggest, through several examples from both the real world and from economic theory, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002514774
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Different antidumping legislations within the WTO : what can we learn from China's varying market economy status?
Sandkamp, Alexander-Nikolai; Yalçin, Erdal - 2020
This paper examines how varying antidumping methodologies applied within the WTO differ in the extent to which they reduce targeted exports. We show that antidumping duties, on average, hit Chinese exporters harder than those of other targeted countries. This difference can be traced back in...
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Buying votes and international organizations : the dirty work-hypothesis
Dreher, Axel; Lang, Valentin; Rosendorff, B. Peter; … - 2018
We show how major shareholders can exploit their power over international organizations to hide their foreign-policy interventions from domestic audiences. We argue that major powers exert influence bilaterally when domestic audiences view the intervention favorably. When domestic audiences are...
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Market competition or family ties : which prevails on Italian CEOs pay?
Graziano, Clara; Rondi, Laura - 2015 - This draft: June 8, 2015
The paper analyzes the interplay of product market competition and governance on CEO compensation in Italian listed firms from 2000 to 2011 and tests the impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis on pay-performance sensitivity. We argue that important differences both in the level of compensation...
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Corporate deductibility provisions and managerial incentives
Köthenbürger, Marko; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2013
Using an agency model of firm behavior, the paper analyzes whether the cost of investment should be tax exempt. The findings suggest that, when managers engage in wasteful capital expenditures, welfare may decline if the cost of investment is tax deductible, as commonly advocated. The extent to...
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