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Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions

Ellis, Jesse A. - 2011

Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...

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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa

Braga de Macedo, Jorge - 2010

This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape … Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization … diversification (an indicator of globalization) and income convergence (an indicator of governance) in the sub-regions of West and …

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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2018

incumbent government among skilled individuals. Growth in high skill intensive imports has the opposite effect. High skill …

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Putting Global Governance in its Place

Rodrik, Dani - 2019

In a world economy that is highly integrated, most policies produce effects across the border. This is often believed to be an argument for greater global governance, but the logic requires scrutiny. There remains strong revealed demand for policy and institutional diversity among nations,...

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Going Green in China : Firms’ Responses to Stricter Environmental Regulations

Fan, Haichao - 2019

This paper examines the effect of stringent environmental regulations on firms' environmental practices, economic performance, and environmental innovation. Reducing COD levels by 10% relative to 2005 levels is an aim of the Chinese 11th Five-Year Plan. Using a difference-in-differences...

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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions

Cohen, Alma - 2018

This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...

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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation

Kane, Edward J. - 2008

market failures and correct them. It is taken for granted that we may rely on a well-intentioned government to use its …

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Foreign Firms and Local Communities

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012

The literature on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on host-countries has been almost exclusively focused on issues of productivity, growth and wages. We argue that this leaves quite a bit of important unexplored areas of inquiry,...

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Corporate Social Responsibility for Irresponsibility

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2011

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the hypothesis that companies engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) in order to offset corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). We find general support for the causal relationship: when companies do more "harm," they also do more...

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The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

Eccles, Robert G. - 2012

processes for stakeholder engagement, to be more long-term oriented, and to exhibit higher measurement and disclosure of …

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