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Finance and welfare states in globalizing markets
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2007
It is theoretically clear and may be verified empirically that efficient financial markets can make it less necessary for policy to try and offset the welfare effects of labour income risk and unequal consumption dynamics. The literature has also pointed out that, since international competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298380
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Finance and growth: a macroeconomic assessment of the evidence from a European angle
Papaioannou, Elias - 2007
This paper reviews the literature on the finance-growth nexus within a neoclassical growth framework, placing an … Agenda. While more research is needed to establish causality and verify the theoretical channels linking access to finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604833
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Ruling capital: Emerging markets and the reregulation of cross-border finance
Gallagher, Kevin - 2014
sovereignty to regulate cross-border finance under global economic governance institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903331
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Investment climate and employment growth: the impact of access to finance, corruption and regulations across firms
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2007
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance … systematically by firm types. Micro and small firms have less access to formal finance, pay more in bribes than do larger firms, and … downward the size distribution of firms. In the case of finance and business regulations this occurs by reducing the employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268270
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Regional evidence on the finance-growth Nexus
Vaona, Andrea - 2006
The Finance-Growth Nexus is a classical source of debate among economists. This contribution offers regional evidence … countries. The results for this application support the view that finance leads growth, reject its possible endogeneity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273090
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Poolability and the finance-growth nexus: A cautionary note
Schiavo, Stefano; Vaona, Andrea - 2006
The present contribution tests whether countries can be pooled when studying the finance-growth nexus. Overall, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273103
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Policy volatility and growth
Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2006
A growing body of recent macroeconomic evidence suggests that volatility is detrimental to economic growth. The channels through which volatility affects growth, however, are less clear; substantive evidence based on disaggregate data is almost non-existent. This paper offers a framework in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278247
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The 2004 EU Enlargement: Key Economic Issues
European Economic Advisory Group <München> - 2004
have to co-finance EU-funded projects, and implementation of EU regulations will entail fiscal costs. In total, the fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636642
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War and the international trading system in the twentieth century
Rockoff, Hugh - 2011
Wars have been the main forces shaping the international trading system in the twentieth century. The early years of the twentieth century were dominated by the international gold standard. But as a result of World War I, this system was replaced by the troubled gold exchange standards of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282840
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Foreign direct investment in small island developing states
Read, Robert - 2007
The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in small island developing states (SIDS) is an issue that has been neglected until relatively recently. The reasons for this lack of interest are unsurprising, given both the low absolute volume of capital flows involved and the general neglect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284664