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Do Institutions Cause Growth?
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2004
We revisit the debate over whether political institutions cause economic growth, or whether, alternatively, growth and human capital accumulation lead to institutional improvement. We find that most indicators of institutional quality used to establish the proposition that institutions cause...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468125
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What is the Risk of European Sovereign Debt Defaults? Fiscal Space, CDS Spreads and Market Pricing of Risk
Aizenman, Joshua - 2011
We estimate the pricing of sovereign risk for sixty countries based on fiscal space (debt/tax; deficits/tax) and other … and economically important determinants of market-based sovereign risk. Although the explanatory power of fiscal space … emergence of TED spread as a key pricing factor. However, risk-pricing of the South-West Eurozone Periphery countries is not …
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Fiscal Stimulus and Commercial Bank Lending Under COVID-19
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Spiegel, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate the implications of extra-normal government spending under the COVID-19 pandemic for commercial bank lending growth between 2019Q4 and 2020Q4 in a large sample of over 3000 banks from 71 countries. We control for pre-pandemic structural factors, bank characteristics and government...
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Fire Sales in Finance and Macroeconomics
Shleifer, Andrei - 2010
the risk of fire sales, how fire sales can lead to downward spirals or cascades in asset prices, how arbitrage fails in …
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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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When Is Quality of Financial System a Source of Comparative Advantage?
Ju, Jiandong - 2008
Does finance follow the real economy, or the other way around? This paper unites the two competing schools of thought in a general equilibrium framework. Our key result is that there are threshold effects defined by a set of deep institutional parameters (cost of financial intermediation,...
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Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization
Ju, Jiandong - 2007
the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …
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Intrinsic Openness and Endogenous Institutional Quality
Jiao, Yang - 2017
Quality of public institutions has been recognized as a crucial determinant of macroeconomic outcomes. We propose that a country's intrinsic level of openness (due to population size, geography, or exogenous trade opportunities) affects its incentives in investing in better institutions. We...
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Older People are Less Pessimistic about the Health Risks of Covid-19
Bordalo, Pedro - 2020
May 6 - 13, 2020, to understand these risk perceptions. Here we report some preliminary results. Our most striking finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481349
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How Does Corporate Governance Risk at Home Affect Investment Choices Abroad?
Kim, Woochan - 2008
Disparity between control and ownership rights gives rise to the risk of tunneling by the controlling shareholder, and …
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