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Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei; Aghion, Philippe; … - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2009

In a cross-section of countries, government regulation is strongly negatively correlated with social capital. We document this correlation, and present a model explaining it. In the model, distrust creates public demand for regulation, while regulation in turn discourages social capital...

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Corporate Governance in Comparative Perspective : Prospects for Convergence

Jacoby, Sanford M. - 2002

Pundits of globalization predict the eventual demise of the stakeholder corporate governance model found in Europe and Japan and its replacement by the Anglo-American shareholder model. Were this to occur, it would sharply change the relationship of employees to their employer in many parts of...

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The Regulation of Labor and the Relevance of Legal Origin

Pozen, David - 2007

, and finds that legal origin is a stronger predictor of all of these than political or economic variables, with common law …

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The Fable of the Keiretsu, and Other Tales of Japan We Wish Were True

Miwa, Yoshiro; Ramseyer, J. Mark - 2004

Most of what we collectively think we know about the Japanese economy is urban legend. In fact: - The keiretsu do not exist, and never did. An entrepreneurial research institute in the 1950s created the rosters to sell to Marxist economists looking for the monopoly capital that their theory told...

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The Fable of the Keiretsu

Miwa, Yoshiro; Ramseyer, J. Mark - 2001

Central to so many accounts of post-war Japan, the keiretsu corporate groups have never had economic substance. Conceived by Marxists committed to locating "domination" by "monopoly capital," they found an early audience among western scholars searching for evidence of culture-specific group...

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Regulation and Distrust

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei; Aghion, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

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Regulation and Distrust

Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei; Aghion, Philippe; … - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2009

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Objectivity, Proximity and Adaptability in Corporate Governance

Boot, Arnoud W A; Macey, Jonathon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Countries appear to differ considerably in the basic orientations of their corporate governance structures. We postulate the trade-off between objectivity and proximity as fundamental to the corporate governance debate. We stress the value of objectivity that comes with distance (e.g. the market...

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Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance?

Schettkat, Ronald - 2003

This paper uses data from 20 OECD countries to investigate the impact of welfare state institutions (especially … empirically. It shows that the impact of welfare state institutions is not as clear-cut as the deregulationists' view suggests …. This result may be surprising against the background of the common view that welfare state measures cause European …

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Riforme economiche e crescita: una discussione cirtica

Zenezini, Maurizio - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2014

Negli ultimi vent’anni i paesi europei hanno introdotto numerose riforme economiche orientate a rendere le istituzioni economiche più “favorevoli ai mercati”, nella convinzione che l’ambiente regolativo costituisca un fondamentale fattore di crescita economica. La prima parte di questo...

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