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The Bretton Woods international monetary system : an historical overview

Bordo, Michael D. - 1992

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000109009

Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation

Levine, Ross - 2005

"By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522397

Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522996

Law and firms' access to finance

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

"This paper contributes to the literature on how a country's legal origin influences the operation of its financial system by using firm-level survey data on the obstacles that firms face in raising external finance. The paper assesses two channels through which legal origin may influence the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523108

Measuring Real Economic Effects of Bailouts : Historical Perspectives on How Countries in Financial Distress Have Fared With and Without Bailouts

Bordo, Michael D. - 2000

In this paper we first trace the changing nature of banking, currency and debt crises from the last century to the present. Each type of crisis has transmogrified in the presence of official intervention and the creation of a safety net. A similar pattern is observed for international rescue...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471060

The Future of EMU : What Does the History of Monetary Unions Tell Us?

Bordo, Michael D. - 1999

The creation of EMU and the ECB has triggered a discussion of the future of EMU. Independent observers have pointed to a number of shortcomings or hazard areas' in the construction of EMU, such as the absence of a central lender of last resort function for EMU, the lack of a central authority...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471419

Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hunderd Years Ago?

Bordo, Michael D. - 1999

for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471593

Competition Laws, Governance, and Firm Value

Levine, Ross; Chen, Lin; Xie, Wensi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Do antitrust laws influence corporate valuations? We evaluate the relationship between firm value and laws limiting firms from engaging in anticompetitive agreements, abusing dominant positions, and conducting M&As that restrict competition. Using firm-level data from 99 countries over the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585392

"Unusual, Unstable, Complicated, Unreliable and Temporary" Reinterpreting the Ebb and Flow of Globalization

Bordo, Michael D.; Schenk, Catherine R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

organize: World War I, Bretton Woods, 1970s Great Inflation and Managed Floating. Each turning point was characterized by …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599404

The Global Velocity Curve 1952-1982

Bordo, Michael D. - 1986

cross country comparison in the post World War II period of 84 countries arrayed from very low to very high per capita …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476996

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