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Demutualization, Outsider Ownership and Stock Exchange Performance - Empirical Evidence

Serifsoy, Baris - 2005

Academic contributions on the demutualization of stock exchanges so far have been predominantly devoted to social welfare issues, whereas there is scarce empirical literature referring to the impact of a governance change on the exchange itself. While there is consensus that the case for...

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Shooting the messenger of good news: a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …

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Fancy a stay at the Hotel California? Foreign direct investment, taxation and exit costs

Görg, Holger - 2003

This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in the literature. The analysis considers the effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment...

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Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign direct investment, taxation and firing costs

Görg, Holger - 2002

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Fancy a stay at the Hotel California? Foreign direct investment, taxation and firing costs

Görg, Holger - 2002

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On the robustness of marginal abatement cost curves: the influence of world energy prices

Klepper, Gernot; Peterson, Sonja - 2003

MACC in one country depends - via the link of world energy prices - on the level of abate-ment in the rest of the world … indeed shift with changes in the abatement level in the rest of the world and that especially with low domestic abatement …

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Two views on institutions and development: the grand transition vs the primacy of institutions

Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic...

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The impact of exchange rate variability on US direct investment

Görg, Holger; Wakelin, Katharine - 2001

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Investment and sources of investment finance in developing countries

Görg, Holger; Morrissey, Oliver; Udomkerdmongkol, Manop - 2007

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The Primacy of Institutions Reconsidered: The Effects of Malaria Prevalence in the Empirics of Development

Gundlach, Erich - 2004

I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor of cross-country differences in economic performance, which has recently been postulated by Acemoglu et al. (2001) and others. My estimates show that the reported missing direct performance effects of a measure of...

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