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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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The right amount of trust
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886373
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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...
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Is Poland at risk of a boom-and-bust cycle in the run-up to euro adoption?
Eichengreen, Barry; Steinert, Katharina - 2008
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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 …
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Property rights and finance
Johnson, Simon; McMillan, John; Woodruff, Christopher - 2002
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The economic consequences of legal origins
La Porta, Rafael; López-de-Silanes, Florencio; … - 2007
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Crime and punishment in the "American dream"
Di Tella, Rafael; Dubra, Juan - 2006
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Political selection and persistence of bad governments
Acemoglu, Daron; Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - 2009
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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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