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of default for debtors. We show that legal disputes in the US and the UK disrupt government access to international …
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transport infrastructure investments across continuous space. Allowing for intra- and international trade, the resulting …
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Reducing criminal acts in society is a crucial duty of governments. Establishing punishment structures to attain this goal involves high costs. Typically, both theorists and practitioners resort to the adjustment of severity and/or certainty of punishment as effective deterrents of criminal...
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Trade in intermediate goods as one possible link between rising trade and foreign direct investment is examined. To explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the increasing importance of MNE networks. These hypotheses are...
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign activities of German banks. We use regionally disaggregated panel data for the years 1981-98 and distinguish foreign direct investment from total foreign assets of domestic banks, of their foreign branches and their...
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This paper analyzes how international rules are established and stabilized, i.e. how an international institutional … it analyzes the prevention of negative spillovers, international courts and global public goods. …
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We present a two-step approach of assessing whether major donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and better coordinated aid efforts. First, we calculate Theil indices revealing the concentration of each donor's aid on recipient countries and specific aid sectors....
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The rapid diffusion of the internet and electronic commerce changes the way business and international trade take place …. The new economy poses new challenges to the international regulatory framework, since small distortions due to differing …
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comprehensive long-run dataset of official international lending, covering 230,000 loans, grants and guarantees extended by … large, easily surpassing the scale of total international bailout lending after the 2008 crash. During peacetime …s, official finance has made a sharp comeback, largely due to the rise of China as an international creditor and the …
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This paper analyses the transformative power of NATO accession that gains in importance due to the enlargement fatigue of the EU, the EU’s rather weak neighbourhood incentives and the increasing importance of regional security as an incentive for compliance with the institutional standards of...
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