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Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets : Panel Data Evidenceon the Voracity Effect

Bruckner, Markus - 2010

This paper examines the effect that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...

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The Impact of Ethnic Heterogeneityon the Quantity and Quality of Public Spending

Kuijs, Louis - 2000

The paper investigates empirically the impact of ethnic heterogeneity on the amount of public spending on health and education and the quality, or “technical efficiency” of spending. While it finds partial evidence for the claim that more heterogeneous societies spend less on public goods,...

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Ethnic Diversity, Democracy, and Corruption

Yehoue, Etienne B. - 2007

I study the link between ethnic diversity, democracy, and corruption. In a static model, I show that contrary to conventional wisdom, corruption might emerge as a negative externality of democracy. This occurs through ethnicity, which appears as a rent-extracting technology in a democratic...

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Does IT help? : information technology in banking and entrepreneurship

Ahnert, Toni; Dörr, Sebastian; Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, … - 2021

This paper analyzes the importance of information technology (IT) in banking for entrepreneurship. To guide our … entrepreneurship by making it easier for startups to borrow against collateral. We provide empirical evidence that job creation by … lending channel for IT banks, entrepreneurship increases more in IT-exposed counties when house prices rise. In line with the …

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Uncertainty and the employment dynamics of small and large businesses

Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - 2015

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regressionbased forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that...

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Bankruptcy technology, finance, and entrepreneurship

Souza Sobrinho, Nelson Ferreira - 2017

technology to deal with private debt distress (bankruptcy technology), and obstacles to entrepreneurship (high costs of doing … protection, and eliminate obstacles to entrepreneurship …

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Economic Transition, Entrepreneurial Capacity, and Intergenerational Distribution

Rutherford, Thomas F. - 2002

A defining feature of transition economies is the expansion of the private sector. Motivated by the observation that new enterprises in transition economies seem to have a strong preference for recruiting young people, this paper studies intergenerational redistribution following from market...

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Do Tax Rates Encourage Entrepreneurial Activity?

Gordon, Roger H. - 1997

When the top personal tax rates are above the corporate rate, high-income individuals have an incentive to reclassify their earnings as corporate rather than personal income for tax purposes. U.S. tax law at least imposes strict limits on the extent to which employees in publicly traded...

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Tracking Global Demand for Emerging Market Sovereign Debt

Arslanalp, Serkan - 2014

This paper proposes an approach to track US$1 trillion of emerging market government debt held by foreign investors in local and hard currency, based on a similar approach that was used for advanced economies (Arslanalp and Tsuda, 2012). The estimates are constructed on a quarterly basis from...

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Assessing Countries’ Financial Inclusion Standing : A New Composite Index

Amidžic, Goran - 2014

attracted increasing interest from the international community with the G-20, IMF, and World Bank Group assuming an active role …

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