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Understanding the origins and pace of Africa’s urban transition

Fox, Sean - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In this paper the author argues that urbanisation should be understood as a global historical process driven primarily by population dynamics stimulated by technological and institutional change. In particular, disease control and expanded access to surplus energy supplies are necessary and...

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Fueling the gender gap? Oil and women's labor and marriage market outcomes

Maurer, Stephan E.; Potlogea, Andrei - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper analyzes the effect of resource-based economic specialization on women's labor market outcomes. Using information on the location and discovery of major oil fields in the Southern United States coupled with a county-level panel derived from US Census data for 1900-1940, we...

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All-Star or benchwarmer? relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …

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Macroprudential oversight, risk communication and visualization

Sarlin, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper discusses the role of risk communication in macroprudential oversight and of visualization in risk communication. Beyond the soar in data availability and precision, the transition from firm-centric to system-wide supervision imposes vast data needs. Moreover, except for internal...

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The concept of systemic risk

Smaga, Pawel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The aim of the study is to analyze the concept of systemic risk. The study reviews a multitude of systemic risk definitions in the literature. In addition, the paper identifies factors that contribute to the build-up of systemic risk (vulnerabilities), the spreading of contagion and provides a...

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Reforming the global architecture of financial regulation: the G20, the IMF and the FSB

Knight, Malcolm D. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

The global financial crisis that began in 2007 and deepened in 2008 exposed major weaknesses in financial and macroeconomic policy coordination, and profound flaws in financial risk management and regulation in a number of advanced countries. The severity of the crisis led global leaders to...

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The world trade regime and non-governmental organisations: addressing transnational environmental concerns

Mason, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

The paper examines new opportunities within the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for the representation of transnational environmental concerns by non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Even prior to the Seattle protests in 1999, social movement pressure had prompted the WTO to increase its...

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On the home market effect: theory and empirical evidence

Trionfetti, Federico - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper addresses the question of how to discriminate between the H-O paradigm and the C-H-O paradigm of international trade. The test is based on the home-biased expenditure. The model predicts a positive relationshipp between a country''s share of world''s output (in any particular sector)...

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Regional distribution and spatial impact of FDI in Greece: evidence from firm-level data

Monastiriotis, Vassilis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

known about the impact of FDI on absolute and relative regional economic performance. In this paper we examine this issue by …

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Exchange rate volatility and central bank interventions

Panthaki, Freyan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper studies the impact of Swiss National Bank interventions, and news about these interventions, on the intraday volatility of the Swiss franc - U.S. dollar exchange rate. It extends the existing literature by characterising the the impact of different aspects of central bank...

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