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Quantifying the impact of higher capital requirements on the Swiss economy
Junge, Georg; Kugler, Peter - 2012
So far the discussion in Switzerland about the social costs and benefits of higher capital requirements resulting from the new Basel III Accord and the Swiss Too Big To Fail legislation has been heavily qualitative. This paper provides a quantitative view and estimates the long-run costs and...
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Financial System Development, Regulation and Economic Growth : Evidence from Russia
Thießen, Ulrich - 2004
Recent contributions to the empirical analysis of the relationship between financial system development and economic growth found that an exogenous component of financial system development causes economic growth, is a good predictor of growth and that its growth impact is relatively large. In...
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The Tsunami: Measures of Contagion in the 2007–2008 Credit Crunch
Dungey, Mardi - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 4, pp. 33-43
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Determinants of economic growth in BRIC countries
Goel, Rajjev K.; Korhonen, Iikka - 2011
We study economic growth in four emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC). Questions addressed are: (a) How do medium term growth determinants differ from short term determinants? (b) What are differences between growth effects of aggregate versus disaggregated exports? And...
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Cyclical fiscal policy, output volatility, and economic growth
Badinger, Harald - 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive empirical assessment of the relation between the cyclicality of fiscal policy, output volatility, and economic growth, using a large cross-section of 88 countries over the period 1960 to 2004. Identification of the effects of (endogenous) cyclical fiscal...
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What drives biodiversity?: an empirical assessment of the relation between biodiversity and the economy
Freytag, Andreas; Vietze, Christoph; Völkl, Wolfgang - 2009
of good institutions (especially a high quality of regulation) can in part prevent this effect, which can be cautiously … institutions, these losses may be prevented or mitigated. …
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The Resource Curse Revisited and Revised: A Tale of Paradoxes and Red Herrings
Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Bulte, Erwin H. - 2006
variables, we find that (i) resource abundance, constitutions and institutions determine resource dependence, (ii) resource …
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The resource curse and its potential reversal
Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - 2012
resource measure, using alternative measures of both resources and institutions, and by studying different time periods. While … institutions are good enough. …
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Trust, confidence and economic growth: An evaluation of the Beugelsdijk Hypothesis
Volland, Benjamin - 2010
This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey …; Beugelsdijk, de Groot, & van Schaik, 2004; Dearmon & Grier, 2009) in fact captures the well-functioning of institutions. Our … of the estimated coefficient, when controling for the respondents' perceived well-functioning of institutions. While …
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Are we there yet? Time for checks and balances on new institutionalism
Iyigun, Murat - 2012
economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three … identification, they too narrowly defined what Northian institutions entail. As a matter of fact, political, legal and economic … institutions are highly malleable even in advanced economies, while sustained economic growth could well be deep rooted in …
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