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Does financial activity cause economic growth?
Graff, Michael; Karmann, Alexander - 2001
To clarify the causal links between financial activity and economic growth, three theoretical models are analyzed and a structural equation path models is estimated. In the modeling part, poverty traps result from large fixed costs or high proportions of real investment to run a financial...
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Republic of Belarus: Financial sector review and private sector financing
Gattini, Luca; Borysko, Sofia - 2018
In dieser Studie wird die gesamtwirtschaftliche Lage in Belarus behandelt. Der belarussische Finanzsektor wird …
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Finance and economic development: Township and village enterprises in the People's Republic of China
Chen, Jianbo - 2006
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Does it pay to have the euro? Italy’s politics and financial markets under the lira and the euro
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2009
’s prosperity. The paper focuses on olitical events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in … 1999 has helped insulate Italy’s financial markets from the adverse consequences of its traditionally unstable political … system. We find that important political events have exerted a statistically and economically significant effect on Italy …
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What determines top income shares? Evidence from the twentieth century
Roine, Jesper; Vlachos, Jonas; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007
This paper studies determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire twentieth century. We focus on three groups of income earners: the rich (P99-100), the upper middle class (P90-99), and the rest of the population (P0-90). The results show that...
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What determines top income shares? Evidence from the twentieth century
Roine, Jesper; Vlachos, Jonas; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007
This paper examines the long-run determinants of the evolution of top in-come shares. Using a newly assembled panel of 16 developed countries over the entire twentieth century, we find that financial development dis-proportionately boosts top incomes. This effect appears to be particularly...
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Krise nicht genutzt: Führungspositionen großer Finanzunternehmen weiter fest in Männerhand
Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 3, pp. 12-18
Trotz Fusionen und Finanzkrise hat sich im Finanzsektor wenig geändert: Der Frauenanteil in den Spitzengremien der … Finanzsektor weit mehr als die Hälfte der Beschäftigten Frauen sind, stellen sie nur 2,9 Prozent der Vorstandsmitglieder in den …
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Towards a macroprudential surveillance and remedial policy formulation system for monitoring financial crisis
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2009
Several developing economies witnessed a large number of systemic financial and currency crises since the 1980s which resulted in severe economic, social, and political problems. The devastating impact of the 1982 and 1994-95 Mexican crises, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, the 1998 Russian...
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Integrated Financial Supervision: an Institutional Perspective for the Philippines
Milo, Melanie S. - 2007
This paper looks at the issue of reforming financial regulatory structures from the New Institutional Economics perspective. In particular, it examines how the broader institutional environment prevailing in developing countries like the Philippines may affect the institutional arrangements for...
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Pension Funds and Financial Stability: The Case of the UK Gilt Crisis
Gudjonsson, Jon; Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 3, pp. 155-159
While macroprudential policy has mostly focused on the role of banks, we argue that pension funds are also important for financial stability. Drawing on previous research on pension funds, we explain how their actions can have a vital impact on other financial institutions as well as on...
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