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State-Building, War and Violence: Evidence from Latin America
Kurtenbach, Sabine - 2011
In European history, war has played a major role in state-building and the state monopoly on violence. But war is a very specific form of organized political violence, and it is decreasing on a global scale. Other patterns of armed violence now dominate, ones that seem to undermine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286031
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The Regulation and Privatisation of the Public Water Supply and the Resulting Competitive Effects
Wackerbauer, Johann - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 4, pp. 42-49
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Germany in the European Union: economic policy under ceded sovereignty
Siebert, Horst - 2004
The member states of the European Union have given up sovereignty in quite a number of policy areas and subjected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265421
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Should the Government Be in the Banking Business? The Role of State-Owned and Development Banks
Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Micco, Alejandro; Panizza, Ugo - 2004
This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of state-owned banks and also presents some new results and a robustness analysis. The paper shows that state-owned banks located in developing countries have fiscal costs because they are characterized by lower returns than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327147
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Privatization discontent and its determinants: evidence from Latin America
Checchi, Daniele; Florio, Massimo; Carrera, Jorge - 2005
Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267576
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Foreign direct investment and structural reforms: evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
Campos, Nauro F.; Kinoshita, Yuko - 2008
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268588
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Background report on private sector development in Latin America, the post-communist countries of Europe and Asia, the Middle East and North Africa
Woodward, Richard; Kozarzewski, Piotr; Safavi, Mehdi - 2012
spite of a wave of crises and recessions in the late 1990s and early 2000s). Privatization has made a great deal of progress … somewhat. One of the main lessons for privatization policy makers in MENA countries from the experience in other regions is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430885
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Performance Differences in Europe: Tentative Hypotheses on the Role of Institutions
Aiginger, Karl - 2007
Low growth and persistently high unemployment in Europe raised the question whether it was the specific features of the European Social Model, which lead to these disappointing results. This paper defines the characteristics of the model, and the differences between submodels applied in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435238
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The positive economics of corporatism and corporate governance
Fehn, Rainer; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2000
This paper presents a positive model which shows that institutional setups on capital and labor markets might be intertwined by politicoeconomic forces. Two politicoeconomic equilibria arise from our model, one with little protection of insiders on capital and labor markets, and another one with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265445
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The positive economics of labor market rigidities and investor protection
Fehn, Rainer; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2001
This paper presents a positive model which shows that institutional setups on capital and labor markets might be intertwined by politicoeconomic forces. Some countries especially in continental Europe exhibit a corporatist politicoeconomic equilibrium with a sustantial protection of insiders on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316080