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What Determines Corruption? International Evidence from Micro Data

Mocan, Naci - 2004

both personal and country characteristics determine the risk of exposure to bribery. Examples are gender, wealth, education … and 1980s, and the strength of the institutions in the country (measured by the risk of expropriation). The second part of …

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Comparing geopolitical risk measures

Karagozoglu, Ahmet K.; Wang, Na; Zhou, Tianpeng - In: The journal of portfolio management : JPM 48 (2022) 10, pp. 226-257

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Equity Issue-Specific Versus Broad Regulatory Protections Against Expropriation Risk : International Evidence from SEOs

Gupta, Manu - 2013

We compare non-issue specific (broad) investor protections against expropriation by firm's insiders with regulations that specifically protect investors of new equity issues (issue-specific). Since in-nation regulations rarely change and are homogenous for all firms, it is difficult to compare...

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The Impact of Climate Risk on Firm Performance and Financing Choices : An International Comparison

Huang, Henry He; Kerstein, Joseph; Wang, Chong - 2021

Increasingly adverse climatic conditions have created greater systematic risk for companies throughout the global … economy. Few studies have directly examined the consequences of climate-related risk on financing choices by publicly …-listed firms across the globe. We attempt to do so using the Global Climate Risk Index compiled and published by Germanwatch (Kreft …

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What Determines Corruption? International Evidence from Micro Data

Mocan, Naci H. - 2021

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Patience, risk-taking, and human capital investment across countries

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 132 (2022) 646, pp. 2290-2307

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Roots of autocracy

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017

Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...

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Growth effects of fiscal policies : a comparative analysis in a multi-country context

Brons, Martijn; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999

The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...

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Roots of autocracy

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2015

This research explores the origins of the variation in the prevalence and nature of political institutions across globe. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variation in the inherent diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of Homo...

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ICT and economic growth : comparing developing, emerging and developed countries

Niebel, Thomas - 2014

This paper analyzes the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth in developing, emerging and developed countries. It is based on a sample of 59 countries for the period 1995 to 2010. Various panel data regressions confirm the positive relationship between ICT...

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