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Financial sector regulation and reforms in emerging markets : an overview
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010
as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest … objectives can in fact reinforce one another. I also discuss aspects of macroeconomic policies and cross-border regulation that … regulation ; financial development ; emerging markets ; financial inclusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153059
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Financial crises and liberalization : progress or reversals?
Saka, Orkun; Campos, Nauro; De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei; … - 2019
Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022690
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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
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Labour market regulation in the EU-15 : causes and consequences - a survey
Siebert, William S. (contributor) - 2006
efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497972
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The impact of the crisis on employment and the role of labour market institutions
Eichhorst, Werner; Escudero, Verónica; Marx, Paul; … - 2010
The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in relation to output or GDP reductions varies...
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Media capture by banks
Durante, Ruben; Fabiani, Andrea; Laeven, Luc; Peydró, … - 2022
Do media slant news in favor of the banks they borrow from? We study how lending connections affect news coverage of banks earnings reports and of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis on major newspapers from several European countries. We find that newspapers cover announcements by their lenders...
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Reform redux : measurement, determinants and reversals
Campos, Nauro (contributor); Horváth, Roman (contributor) - 2006
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...
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India's approach to capital account liberalization
Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2009
In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated path to capital account opening, which has served the economy well in terms of reducing its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794018
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Financial liberalization and democracy : the role of reform reversals
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio - 2009
The relationship between economic and political liberalization has received a great deal of attention lately, yet the possibility of a nonlinear relationship and the role of reversals remain largely neglected. Focusing on democratization and financial reform, this paper offers evidence for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879372
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Financial liberalization and the brain drain : a panel data analysis
Mitra, Aniruddha; Bang, James T.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2011
This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an exploratory factor analysis, we are able to distinguish between two dimensions of financial...
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