This paper empirically investigates the link between the level of government revenue per capita and six indicators of the quality of governance in an unbalanced panel data set consisting of all countries in the world (217 countries; due to some missing data, (this was reduced to 196) using data...

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Dissertation ist es, ein besseres Verständnis von systemischen Risiken auf Interbankenmärkten zu entwickeln. Die Bedeutung systemischer Risiken für die Stabilität des gesamten Finanzsystems ist durch die internationale Finanzkrise der Jahre 2007/2008 deutlich...

Does too much competition in banking hurt society? What policies can best protect and stabilize banking without stifling it? Institutional responses to such questions have evolved over time, from interventionist regulatory control after the Great Depression to the liberalization policies that...

In a nation pledged to “Unity in Diversity”, few industries could be more important than interisland shipping. Yet, since independence, problems plaguing interisland shipping have continued, despite the rehabilitation and modernization under the New Order Government. This book tries to...