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This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular … emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both "finance" and "capital … the United States. To a large degree, this was because finance, instead of financing the capital development of the …
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This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular … emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both "finance" and "capital … the United States. To a large degree, this was because finance, instead of financing the capital development of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530034
This paper assesses how legal origin influences financial development through regulation quality and the rule of law. It employs all the dimensions identified by the Financial Development and Structure Database of the World Bank. The law channels are instrumented with legal origins to account...
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Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
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and banking institution design, and historical political conditions, such as centralization of power, plays an ancillary …
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motivate embedding skill heterogeneity into macro-finance development models in order to capture these distributional …
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In various writings Karl Marx made references to an "aristocracy of finance" in Western Europe and the United States … decades, and especially in the context of the current crisis, a new "aristocracy of finance" has emerged, as corporate … holdings of the public debt have become rapidly concentrated in favor of large corporations classified within Finance …
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This paper examines the role of institutions (including civil law origin), financial deepening and degree of regime authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using panel data through a fixed effect model. The results reveal that English civil law origin and the...
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