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Cross-border banking on the two sides of the Atlantic: Does it have an impact on bank crisis management?
Nieto, Maria J.; Wall, Larry D. - 2015
In the United States and the European Union (EU), political incentives to oppose cross-border banking have been strong in spite of the measurable benefits to the real economy from breaking down geographic barriers. Even a federal-level supervisor and safety net are not by themselves sufficient...
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Policies in Hard Times: Assessing the Impact of Financial Crises on Structural Reforms
Gokmen, Gunes; Nannicini, Tommaso; Onorato, … - 2017
It is argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and the public...
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Satisfaction with Democracy and Collective Action Problems: The Case of the Environment
Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich; Wagner, Alexander - 2008
satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294929
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What does it take to sell environmental policy? An empirical analysis of referendum data
Halbheer, Daniel; Niggli, Sarah; Schmutzler, Armin - 2005
We analyze the factors that influence the support for environmental policy proposals. Swiss referendum data show that proposals obtain more yes-votes if they do not restrict consumption possibilities directly, if they are endorsed by the largest business association, if environmental preferences...
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Tullock challenges: Happiness, revolutions and democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - 2011
Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical Tullock Challenges. The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...
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Institutions, taxation, and market relationships in ancient Athens
Lyttkens, Carl Hampus - 2008
democracy. Between 600 and 322 B.C., Athenian society underwent significant institutional change. Rule by a birth aristocracy …
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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Democracy
Welander, Anna; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …
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Bowling for fascism: Social capital and the rise of the Nazi Party
Satyanath, Shanker; Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2014
literature on its "dark side". We examine the role of social capital in the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We analyze … democracy. We also show that the effects of social capital were more important in the starting phase of the Nazi movement, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282481
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God does not play dice, but people should: Random selection in politics, science and society
Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2014
This paper discusses and proposes random selection as a component in decision-making in society. Random procedures have played a significant role in history, especially in classical Greece and the medieval city-states of Italy. We examine the important positive features of decisions by random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282483
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …
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