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The Impact of Regional Banking Systems on Firms and SMEs – Evidence from five European Countries
Schmidt, Daniel - 2021
Banks perform similar functions all over the world. Nevertheless, the banking systems around the world are very different. This paper analyses how the difference affects local firms as well as small and medium-sized enterprises. For my project, I combine banking and economic data of five EU...
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Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State
Charap, Joshua - 2006
This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and … revolution by creating a system of patronage and loyalty through corrupt bureaucracy. Competitive corruption patterns are … associated with anarchy and weak dictators, while strong dictators implement a system of monopolistic corruption. Efforts at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782606
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Improving the business climate in Russia
Radziwill, Artur; Vaziakova, Yana - 2015
corruption. Adverse interactions between politics, business and law enforcement generate obstacles for the rule of law and remain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392847
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Institutional and political determinants of private participation in infrastructure : prepared for the Roundtable: Public Private Partnerships for Transport Infrastructure: Renegot...
Moszoro, Marian; Araya, Gonzalo; Ruiz-Nuñez, Fernanda; … - 2014 - Rev. October 2014
financing increases with freedom from corruption, rule of law, quality of regulations, and decreases with court disputes. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478609
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Post-Tender Corruption and Risk Allocation : Implications for Public-Private Partnerships
Iossa, Elisabetta - 2014
Whilst a lot has been said about how to fight corruption at tender stage in public procurement, post-tender corruption … relationship between the quality of a country's institutions, in particular its monitoring technologies and corruption, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068016
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Corruption in Privatization and Governance Regimes
Molinari, M. Cristina - 2012
knows the social cost of a lower grade good. We show that corruption is always detrimental to welfare when governance is …
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Corruption and Positive Selection in Privatization
Molinari, M. Cristina; Buia, Raluca - 2010
provision in-house and privatizing the facility and then outsourcing the production. In particular, we focus on corruption in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212364
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Banks Matter in Eurozone Debt Crisis
Wind, Serge L. - 2011
The eurozone sovereign debt crisis, characterized by enormous debt burdens faced by its weakest economies, has also induced a parallel credit crunch and illiquidity concerns for European banks. Bank holdings of sovereign debt issued by peripheral eurozone countries have dropped in value and are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117156
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Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis
Wind, Serge L. - 2011
The eurozone, composed of 17 countries which have adopted the euro as their currency, has been struggling with an apparently-intractable crisis over the enormous debts faced by its weakest economies and by countries impacted by the bursting of the housing boom in the past global recession of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117947
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Professionals’ Contribution to the Legislative Process : Between Self, Client and the Public
Hofri-Winogradow, Adam S. - 2017
How may professionals be made to contribute to legislative processes so that their expertise redounds to the public interest, despite the legislative product being likely to have a negative impact on their clients' wealth? Drawing on a case study of the legislative process which gave birth to...
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