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and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys …
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This paper examines how different establishments performed during the recent global financial crisis, focusing on the role of foreign ownership. The paper investigates how foreign ownership affected establishments' responses to negative economic shocks, using a cross-country panel dataset with...
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trade-offs of their national policies on capital flows. National policy measures must be complemented by international … conducted in coordination with international partners …
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framework in light of recent international trends and regulatory models. The study shows that regulation of digital markets in … Middle East and North Africa countries and 20 comparator countries around the world, this paper shows that the Middle East … regulatory framework. However, regulation in most countries in the region, regardless of their level of development, still …
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-mineral exports. Russia's lagging regions have much more tenuous international engagements than the rest of Russia in exports and …
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, international firm location and national regulation. An information-based strategic corporate public good provision mechanism is … the presence of firms with geographic flexibility (multinational enterprises) and market provision of an international … implications as the international information playing field becomes leveled through development, while existing regulations are …
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This paper revisits the institutional determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) using a comprehensive new data set on the regulations that govern FDI in more than 80 countries. It exploits the presence of confirmed zero investment flows between countries to estimate productivity cut-offs...
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proxied by the Z-score and the Merton's distance to default measure, for an international sample of banks over the 2004 …
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international sample of banks in 2003-2011. "Good" corporate governance, which favors shareholder interests, is found to give rise …
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This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2006: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government...
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