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Wei, Shang-Jin - 2000

This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption … display lower corruption in equilibrium. In data, naturally more open economies' do exhibit less corruption even after taking …

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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation

Kane, Edward J. - 1997

Regulation consists of rulemaking and enforcement. Economic theory offers two complementary rationales for regulating financial institutions. Altruistic public-benefits theories treat rules as governmental instruments for increas- ing fairness and efficiency across society as a whole....

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

Ellis, Jesse - 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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Sovereign Wealth Funds : Stylized Facts about their Determinants and Governance

Aizenman, Joshua - 2008

This paper presents statistical analysis supporting stylized facts about sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). It discusses the forces leading to the growth of SWFs, including the role of fuel exports and ongoing current account surpluses, and large hoarding of international reserves. It analyzes the...

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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries

Alesina, Alberto - 2008

This paper has three goals. The first (and perhaps the most important one) is to provide a new compilation of data on ethnic, linguistic and religious composition at the sub-national level for a large number of countries. This data set allows us to measure segregation of different ethnic,...

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Which Countries Become Tax Havens?

Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2006

This paper analyzes the factors influencing whether countries become tax havens. Roughly 15 percent of countries are tax havens; as has been widely observed, these countries tend to be small and affluent. This paper documents another robust empirical regularity: better-governed countries are...

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How's Your Government? International Evidence Linking Good Government and Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2006

In this paper we employ World Values Survey measures of life satisfaction as though they were direct measures of … life satisfaction is more closely linked to several World Bank measures of the quality of government than to real per … to building and maintaining the institutions of electoral democracy …

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Empirical Linkages between Good Government and National Well-being

Helliwell, John F. - 2014

-2012, using data from the Gallup World Poll …

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Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance : Theory and Evidence

Campante, Filipe R. - 2013

Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that elites are constrained by the threat of rebellion, and that this threat is rendered less effective by...

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Education and the Quality of Government

Botero, Juan - 2012

encourage better behavior from officials. Newly assembled individual-level survey data from the World Justice Project show that … survey data on reporting crime and corruption. Citizen complaints might thus be an operative mechanism that explains the link …

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