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Self-enforcing international agreements and domestic policy credibility
Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - 2003
We explore the relationship between international policy coordination and domestic policy credibility when both must be self-supporting. Our arguments are presented in the context of a two-country, two-period model of dynamic emission abatement with transboundary pollution, where government...
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The political economy of two-tier reforms of employment protection in Europe
Ochel, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008
history of national reform processes. In addition the paper seeks to determine whether two-tier reforms later led to EPL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790764
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Local fiscal equalization in Estonia : is a reform necessary?
Friedrich, Peter; Nam, Chang-woon; Reiljan, Janno - 2009
Estonian municipalities should perform a broad range of functions, while their fiscal resources are often limited and large disparities in fiscal capacity prevail among them. Moreover, the power to regulate fiscal affairs is mostly in the hands of the central government. We discuss how a strict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887473
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Childcare costs and the demand for children : evidence from a nationwide reform
Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2010
Exploiting the exogenous variation in childcare costs caused by a Swedish childcare reform, we are able to identify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697836
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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624542
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"Take it or go to court" : the impact of sec. 1a of the German protection against dismissal act on severance payments
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
In 2004, a section was added to the German Protection against Dismissal Act, establishing a new procedure to dismiss an employee, given a predetermined severance payment. Most legal scholars presume the change to be without impact, while a minority of experts claims it to be either beneficial or...
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On the many ways Europeanization matters : the implementation of the water reform in Italy (1994-2006)
Asquer, Alberto - 2009
to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case study of the implementation of the 1994 water reform in Italy in … European Court of Justice. -- regulatory reform ; public policy implementation ; Europeanization ; water sector ; Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922685
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Financial reform and banking crises
Shehzad, Choudhry Tanveer - 2009
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 … of financial reform reduce the likelihood of systemic crises. We also show that after a country has reformed, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922715
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Corporate governance reforms, interlocking directorship networks and company value in Italy (1998-2007)
Drago, Carlo; Millo, Francesco; Ricciuti, Roberto; … - 2011
In this paper we contribute to the literature on the structure of interlocking directorship networks and to the literature on the relationship between corporate governance and performance. We use a unique dataset made of corporate governance variables related to the board size and interlocking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009693
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The importance of the electoral rule : evidence from Italy
Bordignon, Massimo; Monticini, Andrea - 2011
We employ bootstrap methods (Efron (1979)) to test the effect of an important electoral reform implemented in Italy … objectives of the reform) that remained unchanged at their pre-reform level. -- electoral system ; plurality rule ; Duverger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010168