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Risk in the sense of potential negative outcome is inherent to managerial action. In the lastdecade, an increasing focus has been put in theory as well as practice on the conceptual designof risk management and risk controlling systems, even though no clear concept exists up tonow on how a risk...
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For over a decade, The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation, Washington's preeminent think tank, have tracked the march of economic freedom around the world with the influential Index of Economic Freedom. Since 1995, the Index has brought Smith's theories about liberty, prosperity and...
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In this paper we question the consensus of using a binary crisisdefinition for empirical crisis models. We believe that the most severeshortcomings of the crisis models today are in the crisis definition rather than the explanatory variables ...
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Central bank policymakers are not primarilyrandom number generators.1 Reading boththe financial press and the work of academics,however, one might get the opposite impression.Reporters (and the readers of their stories) seem toattach considerable importance to each Federal OpenMarket Committee...
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Recent attempts to incorporate optimal fiscal policy into NewKeynesian models subject to nominal inertia, have tended to assume that policymakers are benevolent and have access to a commitment technology. A separateliterature, on the New Political Economy, has focused on real economies...
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This paper explores the complexities of government financial management in China andexamines the nature of the recent Public Finance Framework reform in that country. Weargue that this Public Finance Framework reform is not just the latest idea in a centrallydominated reform agenda (and a...
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In recent decades the new institutional economics has redrawn attention to the significance of state sponsored and regulated institutions, organisations, laws, rules, customs and culturally conditioned behaviour for the promotion of long term economic development (Menard and Shirley, 2005)....
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The article reflects the present banking and financial crisis on basis of latest research results about the existence of superior economic and financial order acting within the real world (equal natural world). Within this order (equal natural order) observably all creatures use different types...
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The article reflects the present banking and financial crisis on basis of latest research about the existence of superior economic and financial order within the real world (equal natural world). Within this order (equal natural order) observably all creatures use different types of energy like...
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The fact that raising taxes can increase taxed labor supply through income effects is frequently used to justify greater public good provision than indicated by traditional, compensated analyses. We develop a model including multiple public goods and taxes and derive consistent measures of the...
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