Showing 1 - 10 of 4,881
Jürgen Habermas has recently warned that the sovereign debt crisis in Europe is transforming democratic governments into ‘economic government' threatening not only economic disaster but the end of the world's first supranational project — the European Union. And, according to Habermas,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974763
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012435658
This paper tests whether Rodrik's (1999) results that institutions for conflict management are associated with the … quality of conflict management institutions with two different indices. The first is an index of political constraints on the … ability to react to economic shocks are robust to different ways of defining the quality of such institutions. We measure the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014161695
New thinking on the nature of fragility and risk shows a shift from a one-dimensional understanding of fragility towards a more holistic approach in which degrees of fragility exist on a spectrum. This approach recognises the need for collaborative, regional and global solutions to tackle the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011562949
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505891
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009761523
In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472517
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463305
that strong rule of law institutions may ameliorate the possible adverse effects of political and economic crises on … heterogeneous effects depending on the type of crisis and how we measure it. We find that rule of law institutions can control …, armed conflict and civil war, and economic crisis such as currency and debt crisis. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173620
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013539191