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Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Francois, Joseph; Horn, Henrik; Kaunitz, Niklas - 2008

It has been alleged since its inception that the WTO Dispute Settlement (DS) mechanism is biased against developing countries, as manifested in e.g. allegedly too low rates of dispute initiation. To shed light on this issue, this study analyses the determinants of developing country...

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The Real Effects of Private Equity Buyouts

Tåg, Joacim - 2010

Private equity buyouts have become a common element in the industrial development process. I survey the literature on the real economic effect of buyouts: employment, wages, productivity, and long-run investments. Employment tend to marginally fall after a buyout in most countries studied, with...

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Billionaires

Leeson, Peter; Sanandaji, Tino - 2012

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is typically trivial: self-employed persons. This paper investigates entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is enormous: billionaires. We explore the relationship...

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Does Religiosity Promote Property Rights and the Rule of Law?

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2012

Social and cultural determinants of economic institutions and outcomes have come to the forefront of economic research. We introduce religiosity, measured as the share for which religion is important in daily life, to explain institutional quality in the form of property rights and the rule of...

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Burden of Proof in Environmental Disputes in the WTO: Legal Aspects

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2009

This paper discusses allocation of burden of proof in environmental disputes in the WTO system. Besides laying down the natural principles that (i) the complainant carries the burden to (ii) make a prima facie case that its claim holds, WTO adjudicating bodies have said little of more general...

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Social Trust and Central-Bank Independence

Berggren, Niclas; Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Hellström, Jörgen - 2012

Central banks have been made more independent in many countries. A common rationale has been the existence of a credibility (or lack-of-trust) problem for monetary policy. This indicates a possible and until now unexplored link between social trust and central-bank independence. Our empirical...

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Globalization and Absolute Poverty: A Panel Data Study

Bergh, Andreas; Nilsson, Therese - 2011

Using panel data from more than 100 countries around the world from 1988 through 2007, this paper examines the … developed by Dreher (2006) and the World Bank poverty estimates. Using a fixed-effect panel based on five-year averages and …

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The International Mobility of the Super-Rich

Sanandaji, Tino - 2012

Relying on Forbes Magazine annual rankings for two decades, 1625 billionaires and their countries of birth and residence are identified, most of whom are self-made entrepreneurs. 13 percent of billionaires reside in a country other than that of their birth. Migration is linked to distance, to...

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The Global Award for Entreprenurship Research

Henrekson, Magnus; Lindström, Anders - 2008

The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...

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The World Distribution of Productivity: Country TFP Choice in a Nelson-Phelps Economy

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Krusell, Per - 2010

general equilibrium model of the world which has externalities: each country invests in TFP and internalizes the dynamic … effects of its own investment, while treating other countries' investments as given. Average world growth is endogenous, as is …-run differences in TFP levels and that, in the long run, the world distribution of TFP across countries may be asymmetric, i.e., twin …

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