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Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2011
Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist …
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Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph - 2011
Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460970
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The Right Amount of Trust
Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2009
We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Our interpretation is that highly trusting individuals tend to assume too much social risk and to be cheated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156416
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The Right Amount of Trust
Butler, Jeffrey - 2009
We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Our interpretation is that highly trusting individuals tend to assume too much social risk and to be cheated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463306
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Is Poland at Risk of a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2008
We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption …. Our answer, inevitably, is mixed. On the one hand the fact that Poland is an outlier, credit-growth wise, accentuates the … Poland. And it is certainly conceivable that the same policies and country characteristics (not always visible to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769529
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Is Poland at Risk of a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2008
We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption …. Our answer, inevitably, is mixed. On the one hand the fact that Poland is an outlier, credit-growth wise, accentuates the … Poland. And it is certainly conceivable that the same policies and country characteristics (not always visible to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464209
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Property Rights and Finance
Johnson, Simon; Woodruff, Christopher; McMillan, John - 2002
Which is the tighter constraint on private sector investment: weak property rights or limited access to external finance? From a survey of new firms in post-communist countries, we find that weak property rights discourage firms from reinvesting their profits, even when bank loans are available....
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Property Rights and Finance
Johnson, Simon; McMillan, John; Woodruff, Christopher - 2021
Which is the tighter constraint on private sector investment: weak property rights or limited access to external finance? From a survey of new firms in post-communist countries, we find that weak property rights discourage firms from reinvesting their profits, even when bank loans are available....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213059
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The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
La Porta, Rafael - 2010
In the last decade, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country's laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well as with economic outcomes. We summarize this evidence and attempt a unified...
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Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"
Di Tella, Rafael - 2010
We observe that countries where belief in the quot;American dreamquot; (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know from previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective...
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