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The Limits of Financial Globalization
Stulz, René M. - 2005
impact of financial globalization has been remarkably limited. I argue that country attributes are still critical to … ability of a country to take advantage of financial globalization. The twin agency problems help explain why the impact of … financial globalization has been limited and why financial globalization can lead to capital flight and financial crises. The …
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The Political Risks of Fighting Market Failures : Subversion, Populism and the Government Sponsored Enterprises
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012
There are many possible ways of reforming the Government-Sponsored Enterprises that insure mortgages against default, including a purely public option, complete privatization or a hybrid model with private firms and public catastrophic insurance. If the government is sufficiently capable and...
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Integrated Political Strategy
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2010
This paper reviews the literature on corporate political strategy and identifies a number of open research questions and streams for potential investigation. The paper develops a framework to explain why, when, and how a firm will pursue multi-forum political action as part of its non-market and...
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Hall of Mirrors : Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the...
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Firm-Level Political Risk : Measurement and Effects
Hassan, Tarek Alexander - 2017
political topic tend to increase lobbying on that topic, but not on other topics, in the following quarter …
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Working the System : Firm Learning and the Antidumping Process
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2021
This paper takes the first systematic look at how prior experience by US firms in filing US AD petitions affects future AD filing activity and outcomes. Such prior experience may affect both the cost of filing petitions, as well as the likelihood of successful outcomes and dumping margin...
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Like Me, Buy Me : The Effect of Soft Power on Exports
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2015
perceived to have “a mainly positive or negative influence in the world.” Holding other things constant, a country's exports are …. Succinctly, countries receive a commercial return on their soft power …
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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 2014
Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...
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Political Economy in a Changing World
Acemoglu, Daron - 2013
unanticipated) changes in the distribution of political power and in economic structure. We focus on the Markov Voting Equilibria …, which require that economic and political changes should take place if there exists a subset of players with the power to … institutions as well as individual types can be ordered, and preferences and the distribution of political power satisfy natural …
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Central Banks and Gold Puzzles
Aizenman, Joshua - 2012
the intensity of holding gold is correlated with 'global power' - by the history of being a past empire, or by the sheer …
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