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Do civil and political repression really boost foreign direct investments?
Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2001
Multinational enterprises are often accused to have a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the popular political repression boosts FDI hypothesis and arrives...
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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars - 2010
Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization …-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity rights significantly and robustly increase with globalization and … community is presumably less effective in promoting empowerment rights. -- Human Rights ; Globalization ; Economic Freedom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008667610
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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars - 2010
Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization …-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity rights significantly and robustly increase with globalization and … community is presumably less effective in promoting empowerment rights. -- human rights ; globalization ; economic freedom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699737
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Do international human rights treaties improve respect for human rights?
Neumayer, Eric - In: International conflict resolution, (pp. 69-110). 2006
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Does terror threaten human rights? : evidence from panel data
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor);  … - 2007 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...
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Does terror threaten human rights? : evidence from panel data
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496529
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The economic effects of human rights
Blume, Lorenz; Voigt, Stefan - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 60 (2007) 4, pp. 509-538
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Rights and judicial independence
Yazaki, Yukihiro - In: Economics of governance 15 (2014) 2, pp. 179-201
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Der gezähmte Diktator : die Wirkung von Menschenrechtsverfahren auf das Repressionslevel in Autokratien
Ostertag, Thomas - 2017
Variation bei den Entwicklungshilfeleistungen konnte in der Vergangenheit die angestrebte Verbesserung der Menschenrechte …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534744
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The economic effects of human rights
Blume, Lorenz (contributor); Voigt, Stefan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Economists are often skeptical concerning the economic effects of various forms of human rights: it has been argued that basic human rights can make the legal system less efficient but also that extensive social rights are incompatible with market economies. It is argued here that basic human...
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