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The fear of freedom : politicians and the independence and accountability of financial sector supervisors
Quintyn, Marc; Ramirez, Silvia; Taylor, Michael - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003432377
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The Chinese corporate savings puzzle : a firm-level cross-country perspective
Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Tong, Hui; Wei, Shang-jin - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009406806
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The real effect of banking crises
Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni; Detragiache, Enrica; Rajan, … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003074046
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Does insider trading raise market volatility?
Du, Julan; Wei, Shang-jin - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001760833
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Deposit insurance : a survey of actual and best practices
Garcia, Gillian G. H. - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001393576
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Trends in fiscal transparency : evidence from a new database of the coverage of fiscal reporting
Wang, Rachel F.; Irwin, Timothy C.; Murara, Lewis Kabayiza - 2015
Although there are several measures of fiscal transparency, none provides satisfactory information on certain issues of macroeconomic relevance, including whether fiscal data are available for all of general government, whether the government reports a balance sheet, and whether spending and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012692641
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Purchasing Power Parities and the Size of World Economies : Results from the 2017 International Comparison Program
World Bank Group (contributor) - World Bank Group - 2020
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative led by the World Bank under the … the world's economies. The report provides ICP results for the benchmark year 2017 and revised results for earlier years …-operation and Development, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Notably, PPPs and ICP data are used in indicators monitoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644294
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Benchmarking Public Procurement 2017 : Assessing Public Procurement Regulatory Systems in 180 Economies
World Bank Group - 2016
statistics on the size of public procurement in economies around the world. While data are publicly available for High …-income economies, for the rest of the world, data and studies are scarce. However, public procurement is as important in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646534
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Jobs' amenability to working from home : evidence from skills surveys for 53 countries
Hatayama, Maho; Viollaz, Mariana; Winkler, Hernan - 2020
The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241132
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Determinants of social distancing and economic activity during COVID-19 : a global view
Maloney, William F.; Taskin, Temel - 2020
The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241139