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This paper tests whether Rodrik's (1999) results that institutions for conflict management are associated with the ability to react to economic shocks are robust to different ways of defining the quality of such institutions. We measure the quality of conflict management institutions with two...
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, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) had a more timely effect than US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP … statements, such as the Basel Accord which sets many policies closely related to the IFRS, such as deferred tax credits. In this … way, this paper aim to enrich the results of these decisions, and illuminate aspects of amendments to IFRS and US GAAP in …
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Like a number of other states, Oregon has been hampered in its pension reform efforts since 1996 by its state supreme court's embrace of the “California Rule,” a doctrine arising, in Oregon's case, from a misunderstanding of federal Contract Clause precedent. Under the misreading, states...
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On these grounds, the focus of this research aims to explore the impact of the economic crisis on the South-eastern Europe’ public administration systems, and the anti-crisis measures undertaken by the public administration at the level of the governance process, with a particular focus on...
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Time series evidence on leverage suggests that simple financial ratios may not explain the disparate performance of U.S. banking institutions during the financial crisis. I discuss the cross-section determinants of U.S. commercial bank returns, and find that Tier 1 capital ratios explain nearly...
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