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A Cross-Country Analysis of the Roles of Border Openness, Human Capital and Legal Institutions in Explaining Economic Development

Oyekola, Olayinka - 2020

This paper studies the income effect of three specific policy variables: border openness to migration, accumulation of human capital, represented by the education level of the adult population, and the strength of legal institutions, captured by the confidence of a country's citizens to abide by...

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Religious, Civil, and Economic Freedoms : What's the Chicken and What's the Egg?

Makridis, Christos - 2021

This paper studies the relationship between religious liberty and economic freedom. First, three new facts emerge: (a) religious liberty has increased since 1960, but has slipped substantially over the past decade; (b) the countries that experienced the largest declines in religious liberty tend to...

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Patent Intensity and Concentration : The Effect of Institutional Quality on MSA Patent Activity

Wagner, Gary A.; Bologna Pavlik, Jamie - 2020

Patented innovation is a predominately local phenomena. It is also an indicator of economic growth. Using data on U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), we examine the long-run effect of economic freedom, and each of its three components, on local patent activity. We find that increased...

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Economic Fitness As a Tool for Sovereign Development Funds

Alsweilem, Khalid; Cader, Masud Z.; Rietveld, Malan - 2023

Sovereign Development Funds’ (SDFs) dual mandate of pursuing financial or commercial objectives alongside long-term strategic and developments goals presents several challenges. First, SDFs must identify why private capital are not allocated at sufficient scale to target sectors – which...

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Will the Wheatley Recommendations Fix LIBOR?

Abrantes-Metz, Rosa M. - 2012

In this article we summarize the main problems with the current LIBOR setting, describe our proposal on how to reform LIBOR through a committed quote system (“CLIBOR”), and explain why the final Wheatley Review proposal on how to reform LIBOR, and its reasons for stopping short of our...

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Countercyclical Regulation and Its Challenges

McCoy, Patricia A. - 2016

Following the 2008 financial crisis, countercyclical regulation emerged as one of the most promising breakthroughs in years to halting destructive cycles of booms and busts. This new approach to systemic risk posits that financial regulation should clamp down during economic expansions and ease...

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Has "too big to fail" been solved? : a longitudinal analysis of major U.S. banks

Thosar, Satish; Schwandt, Bradley - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 1/24, pp. 1-14

In the wake of the global financial crisis that erupted in 2008, there has been extensive commentary and regulatory focus on the 'Too Big to Fail' issue. In this paper, we survey the proposed solutions and regulatory initiatives that have been undertaken. We conduct a longitudinal analysis of...

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Why Copyright and Linking Can Tango

Tsoutsanis, Alexander - 2014

This article discusses the legal status of links, in connection with the pending cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Svensson, C More and BestWater. Hyperlinks, deep links, framed links and embedded links are discussed. It focuses on the Opinion of the European Copyright...

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Beyond Net Neutrality : End-User Sovereignty

Noam, Eli M. - 2013

This article discusses the underlying dynamics behind the present debate over net-neutrality, analyzes the pro's and con's, concludes that the debate is based on false premises, and proposes a better solution - End-user Sovereignty - that is both open and only lightly regulated

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Why have some monetary reforms succeeded and others not? An empirical assessment

Freytag, Andreas - 2001

macroeconomic model of commitment and credibility. As the dependent variable, we calculate a post-reform inflation rate. The … exogenous variables are the degree of legal commitment and the constraining influence of institutions. The paper allows for the … conclusion that monetary commitment, the consideration of institutional constraints and abstinence from the money press are …

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