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Financial integration among economies has the benefit of improving allocation efficiency and diversifying risk. However the recent global financial crisis, considered as the worst since the Great Depression has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its...
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Financial integration among economies has the benefit of improving allocation efficiency and diversifying risk. However the recent global financial crisis, considered as the worst since the Great Depression has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its...
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International Monetary Fund. The countries with crises have been analysed with respect to publicly available World Bank indicators … significant differences with respect to World Bank good governance indicator values for the period before the crisis. Control of … corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness are the indicators which are statistically different for these sets of …
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This paper is a first attempt to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. Using the Multiple Indicators, Multiple Causes (MIMIC) method we apply for the first time (i) the light intensity approach instead of GDP avoiding the...
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Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...
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investigated for 20 countries over the period 1995–2015. Estimation results indicated that high corruption increased inflation …Up until the 1980s, studies on corruption were dominated by disciplines of public administration and sociology. In the … International Agency, corruption, which has a negative impact on most macroeconomic indicators, is “the abuse of entrusted power for …
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This paper empirically examines the impact of corruption on FDI in European Union countries, including candidate …, we find that corruption has a negative impact on FDI. -- FDI ; Corruption ; Efficient Grease Hypothesis ; OLS …
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