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We study whether national leaders’ foreign education influences their foreign policy, measured by voting behavior at … abroad - makes leaders with foreign education more likely to vote with their host country. At the same time, such leaders … voting coincidence. To test this theory we make use of data on the educational background of 831 leaders and the voting …
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We study whether national leaders' foreign education influences their foreign policy, measured by voting behavior at … abroad - makes leaders with foreign education more likely to vote with their host country. At the same time, such leaders … voting coincidence. To test this theory we make use of data on the educational background of 831 leaders and the voting …
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We investigate empirically changes in voting in the United Nations General Assembly consequent to leader turnovers over the 1985–2008 period and find evidence that governments with new rulers are more supportive of the United States on important votes. We consider the explanations that might...
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A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic … performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper …, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association. Our findings suggest …
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We empirically analyze the determinants of Initial Public Offering (IPO) underpricing using panel data for 29 countries over the period 1988-2005. Our hypotheses stress the importance of institutional and legal factors in explaining cross-country variations. We find that increased protection of...
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A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic … performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper …, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association. Our findings suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281226
: political, economic, institutional, and human development and culture. We use ordered probit to investigate the importance of …
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The paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on governance employing four indicators of governance and five measures of decentralization. Depending on data availability, crosssections for a maximum of 129 countries are estimated. Results for a panel of about 70 countries over the period...
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