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Porta, Rafael La - 2000

In this paper, we investigate a neglected aspect of financial systems of many countries around the world: government … around the world. Second, such ownership is particularly significant in countries with low levels of per capita income …

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Investor Protection : Origins, Consequences, and Reform

Porta, Rafael La - 1999

Recent research has documented large differences between countries in ownership concentration in publicly traded firms, in the breadth and depth of capital markets, in dividend policies, and in the access of firms to external finance. We suggest that there is a common element to the explanations...

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Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation

Porta, Rafael La - 1999

We present a model of the effects of legal protection of minority shareholders and of cash flow ownership by a controlling shareholder on the valuation of firms. We then test this model using a sample of 371 large firms from 27 wealthy economies. Consistent with the model, we find evidence of...

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On the Global Impact of Risk-off Shocks and Policy-put Frameworks

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2019

Global risk-off shocks can be highly destabilizing for financial markets and, absent an adequate policy response, may trigger severe recessions. Policy responses were more complex for developed economies with very low interest rates after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). We document, however,...

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Measuring Property Rights Institutions

Djankov, Simeon - 2020

, and more broadly with the Demsetz's (1967) approach to property rights institutions. Indeed, we document world …

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Fire Sales in Finance and Macroeconomics

Shleifer, Andrei - 2010

Fire sales are forced sales of assets in which high-valuation bidders are sidelined, typically due to debt overhang problems afflicting many specialist bidders simultaneously. We overview theoretical and empirical research on asset fire sales, which shows how they can arise, how they can lead to...

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Efficient Regulation

Shleifer, Andrei - 2010

Regulation of economic activity is ubiquitous around the world, yet standard theories predict it should be rather …

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The "Other" Imbalance and the Financial Crisis

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010

the U.S. would experience a sudden stop of capital flows, which would unavoidably drag the world economy into a deep … instead that the root imbalance was of a different kind: The entire world had an insatiable demand for safe debt instruments … of exposing the economy to a systemic panic. This structural problem can be alleviated if governments around the world …

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Disclosure by Politicians

Djankov, Simeon - 2009

We collect data on the rules and practices of financial and conflict disclosure by politicians in 175 countries. Although two thirds of the countries have some disclosure laws, less than a third make disclosures available to the public. Disclosure is more extensive in richer and more democratic...

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Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2009

behind this crisis is the large demand for riskless assets from the rest of the world. In this paper we present a model to …

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