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Factor Endowments, the Rule of Law & Structural Inequality : Testing the Engerman-Sokoloff Hypothesis

Bennett, Daniel - 2018

World index, we estimate the potential causal impact of the rule of law on the long-run net income inequality. Conditioning …

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Law and Islamic Finance : How Legal Origins Affect Islamic Finance Development?

Grassa, Rihab - 2015

Many researchers have shown that differences in legal origin explain differences in financial development. Using historical comparisons and cross-country regressions for 30 countries observed for the period from 2005 to 2010, this study tried to assess if different legal origins impacted on the...

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Law, finance, economic growth and welfare : why does legal origin matter?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

This paper proposes and empirically validates four theories of why legal origin influences growth and welfare through finance. It is a natural extension of "Law and finance: why does legal origin matter?" by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Ross Levine (2003). We find only partial support...

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Financialization, Inequality and Crisis

Sisman, Mehmet - 2016

policies are created after the 1980 worldwide financial capital in the reorganization of the globalized world with the … natural. Because the world is now a different place. Historically, the analysis we do, we briefly as opposed to a dynamic … capital expansion, before the 1st and 2nd World War battle of inter-imperialist sharing came up. Chronologically, according to …

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The Inequality of Influence

Hellman, Joel S.; Kaufmann, Daniel - 2003

This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...

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The effects of financial development on income inequality and poverty

Kappel, Vivien - 2010

This paper examines the effects of financial development on income inequality and poverty. The results of both cross-country and panel data regressions suggest that inequality and poverty are reduced not only through enhanced loan markets, but also through more developed stock markets. We show...

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Finance and Inequality in a Panel of US States

Oyekola, Olayinka - 2019

We examine the impact of sector-based reform on income inequality, concentrating on state banking deregulation in the US, for which we employ annual balanced panel data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, covering the period from 1970 to 2000, for our baseline analysis. The...

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Has the Global Financial Crisis Increased Wealth Inequality? (Conference presentation)

Stolbov, Mikhail - 2021

This is a presentation for the paper "Has the Global Financial Crisis Increased Wealth Inequality?" as delivered at the 52 Annual Conference of the Money, Macro and Finance Society" (University of Cambridge)

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Financial inclusion: new measurement and cross-country impact assessment

Park, Cyn-Young; Mercado, Rogelio V. <Jr.> - 2018

This paper introduces a new index of financial inclusion for 151 economies using principal component analysis to compute weights for aggregating nine indicators of access, availability, and usage. It then assesses the impact of financial inclusion on poverty and income inequality. The results...

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Is Economic Nationalism in Corporate Governance Always a Threat?

Gelter, Martin - 2022

During the past decades, corporate law and corporate governance debates have generally been skeptical of elements of economic ‘Nationalism’ or ‘protectionism.’ Arguably, globalization and convergence in corporate governance have resulted in a reduction of protectionist policies. However,...

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