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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397998
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Do Civil and Political Repression Really Boost Foreign Direct Investments?
Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Harms, Philipp - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321049
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003459778
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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317184
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Does Terror Threaten Human Rights? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052801
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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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Measuring Global Macroeconomic Uncertainty
Moramarco, Graziano - 2021
This paper provides a new index of global macroeconomic uncertainty and investigates the cross-country transmission of uncertainty using a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model. The index measures the dispersion of forecasts resulting from parameter uncertainty in the GVAR. Over the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226308
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Measuring Global Macroeconomic Uncertainty
Moramarco, Graziano - 2020
This paper provides new indices of global macroeconomic uncertainty and investigates the cross-country transmission of uncertainty using a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model. The indices measure the dispersion of forecasts that results from parameter uncertainty in the GVAR. Relying on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831182
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Measuring global macroeconomic uncertainty
Moramarco, Graziano - 2020
This paper provides new indices of global macroeconomic uncertainty and investigates the cross-country transmission of uncertainty using a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model. The indices measure the dispersion of forecasts that results from parameter uncertainty in the GVAR. Relying on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233069