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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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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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Global business cycles : convergence or decoupling?

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); … - 2008

This paper analyzes the evolution of the degree of global cyclical interdependence over the period 1960-2005. We categorize the 106 countries in our sample into three groups - industrial countries, emerging markets, and other developing economies. Using a dynamic factor model, we then decompose...

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Liquidity management of US global banks : internal capital market in the great recession

Cetorelli, Nicola; Goldberg, Linda S. - In: Journal of international economics 88 (2012) 2, pp. 299-311

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Introduction to special issue on the global financial crisis

Forbes, Kristin; Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Engel, Charles - In: Journal of international economics 88 (2012) 2, pp. 215-218

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Special issue: the global financial crisis

Forbes, Kristin (contributor); Frankel, Jeffrey (contributor) - 2012

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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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Terrorism and the media

Jetter, Michael - 2014

This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which could explain their increased popularity among terrorist...

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