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Debski, Julia; Jetter, Michael - 2015

the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged …This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … corruption by 2.5 index points (scale from zero to ten). Surprisingly, the link between the share of women in the labor force and …

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Good girl, bad boy : corrupt behavior in professional tennis

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2015

This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being "on the bubble" of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam tournaments, while their opposition does not. Analyzing over 378,000 matches provides strong...

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Explaining post-Cold-War civil conflict among 17 billion models: the importance of history and religion

Jetter, Michael; Mahmood, Rafat; Parmeter, Christopher F.; … - 2020

a comprehensive set of 34 potential determinants in 175 post-Cold-War countries (covering 98.2% of the world population … dominance. Third, economic and political factors remain less relevant than colonial origin and religion. These results lend …

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Parity reversion in real exchange rates : fast, slow, or not at all?

Cashin, Paul A.; McDermott, John - In: IMF staff papers 53 (2006) 1, pp. 89-119

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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009

, however, is that there seem to be certain "threshold" levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs …

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How does financial globalization affect risk sharing? : Patterns and channels

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2007

In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of the patterns of risk sharing among different groups of countries and examine how international...

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A new database of financial reforms

Abiad, Abdul; Detragiache, Enrica; Tressel, Thierry - In: IMF staff papers 57 (2010) 2, pp. 281-302

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Does financial globalization promote risk sharing?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - In: Journal of development economics 89 (2009) 2, pp. 258-270

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Volatility and growth : governments are key

Jetter, Michael - 2013

There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a negative indirect effect, operating through the insurance...

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UN interventions : the role of geography

Duque, Juan Carlos; Jetter, Michael; Sosa, Santiago - 2014

This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a UN military intervention decreases by 4 percent. We are able to rule out several alternative...

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