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Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina
Alston, Lee J. - 2010
resorted to electoral fraud, which neither the legislative, executive, or judicial branches checked. The decade of unchecked … electoral fraud led to the support for Juan Peron and subsequently to political and economic instability …
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Retractions
Azoulay, Pierre - 2014
. This citation penalty is more severe when the associated retracted article involves fraud or misconduct, relative to cases …
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An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice in Motor Vehicle Searches : Theory and Evidence
Anwar, Shamena; Fang, Hanming - 2021
We propose a simple model of trooper behavior to design empirical tests for whether troopers of different races are monolithic in their search behavior, and whether they exhibit relative racial prejudice in motor vehicle searches. Our test of relative racial prejudice provides a partial solution...
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Wall Street's First Corporate Governance Crisis : The Panic of 1826
Hilt, Eric - 2010
In July of 1826, several prominent Wall Street firms abruptly went bankrupt, amid scandalous revelations of fraudulent financial practices by their management. Although mostly forgotten today, these events represented a watershed in the early development of the corporation laws and investor...
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Sudden Stops : Determinants and Output Effects in the First Era of Globalization, 1880-1913
Bordo, Michael D. - 2010
Using a sample of 20 emerging countries from 1880 to 1913, we study the determinants and output effects of sudden stops in capital inflows during an era of intensified globalization. We find that higher levels of original sin (hard currency debt to total debt) and large current account deficits...
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Financial Distress in the Great Depression
Graham, John R. - 2015
We use firm-level data to study corporate performance during the Great Depression era for all industrial firms on the NYSE. Our goal is to identify the factors that contribute to business insolvency and valuation changes during the period 1928 to 1938. We find that firms with more debt and lower...
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The Great Recession in the Shadow of the Great Depression : A Review Essay on “Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession and the Uses and Misuses of History”
Ohanian, Lee E. - 2016
-Depression economy featured rapid productivity growth, whereas today's economy is plagued by low productivity growth. I discuss how the … post-Great Depression economy recovered to trend quickly once policies that depressed competition were removed. I also … argue that returning today's economy to trend may be considerably more challenging …
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The Great Depression and the Great Recession : A View from Financial Markets
Bianchi, Francesco - 2015
Similarities between the Great Depression and the Great Recession are documented with respect to the behavior of financial markets. A Great Depression regime is identified by using a Markov-switching VAR. The probability of this regime has remained close to zero for many decades, but spiked for...
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This Time is Different : A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises
Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2008
This paper offers a quot;panoramicquot; analysis of the history of financial crises dating from England's fourteenth-century default to the current United States sub-prime financial crisis. Our study is based on a new dataset that spans all regions. It incorporates a number of important credit...
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Economic History and Contemporary Challenges to Globalization
O'Rourke, Kevin - 2018
The paper surveys three economic history literatures that can speak to contemporary challenges to globalization: the literature on the anti-globalization backlash of the nineteenth century, focused largely on trade and migration; the literature on the Great Depression, focused largely on capital...
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