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Chapman, Jonathan - 2021

This paper investigates whether high borrowing costs deterred investment in sanitation infrastructure in late nineteenth-century Britain. Town councils had to borrow to fund investment, with considerable variation in interest rates across towns and over time. Panel regressions, using annual data...

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Institutions and creative destruction in CEECs: Determinants of inefficient use of assets

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Siddiquiy, Martin - 2015

We analyze the relationship between institutional quality and firm efficiency. Using rich data on firms in the European Union between 2005 and 2012, we show that high institutional quality lowers the share of persistently inefficiently used assets. The adverse effect of low institutional quality...

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Die beste Bildungspolitik ist ein gute Ordnungspolitik: Eine Erwiderung

Enste, Dominik; Wicher, Jochen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 4, pp. 270-271

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Wohlstand und Regulierung: (k)ein entweder oder? - eine Replik

Schöbel, Enrico; Petersen, Lars - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 4, pp. 267-269

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Institutions and creative destruction in CEECs : determinants of inefficient use of assets

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(Un)Sustainable Development(s) in International Economic Law : A Quest for Sustainability

Aseeva, Anna - 2018

This article aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on post-capitalist economy by exploring the contours of a sustainability-oriented model of economic governance. To this end, the article analyzes the issues of sustainable development in the three main strands of international economic law...

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Competition Law in the Philippines : Economic, Legal and Institutional Context

Marquis, Mel - 2017

Where democracy is fragile and institutions function poorly, particularly in a developing country, competition law … competition law framework cannot be taken for granted. Yet the effort and resource commitments must be made. This article … introduces the new competition regime in the Philippines. From a general perspective it recalls that while competition law does …

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Financial Repression is Knocking at the Door, Again

Jafarov, Etibar - 2019

Financial repression (legal restrictions on interest rates, credit allocation, capital movements, and other financial operations) was widely used in the past but was largely abandoned in the liberalization wave of the 1990s, as widespread support for interventionist policies gave way to a...

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Can Justice Be Served Without Transparency in International Commercial Arbitration?

Dhingra, Jayems - 2021

Transparency is not to be construed as a waiver of the rights to confidentiality of the parties. The Rule of Law, Court Procedural Rules, accountability and transparent legal processes undoubtedly have been the cornerstones of litigation, and foundation of the Courts, rendering justice to the...

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Banking Deregulation and Innovation

Chava, Sudheer - 2015

We document empirical support for a key micro-level channel --- innovation by young, private firms --- through which financial sector deregulation affects economic growth. We find that intrastate banking deregulation, which increased the local market power of banks, decreased the level and risk...

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