This paper investigates the impact of monetary policy announcements on the performance of the stock market in twenty countries (10 Developed and 10 developing). Exchange rate changes and changes in bond yield were taken as control. Daily basis Panel data was used with daily frequency for five...

There are over 180 ILO conventions in many areas of labour law, industrial relations and social security, but they are not ratified universally: For the conventions adopted between 1975 and 1995, the cumulated probability of ratification is about 13 percent ten years after their adoption. In...