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Democratic development and credit : "Democracy doesn't come cheap" but at least credit to its corporations will be

Delēs, Manthos D.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Ongena, Steven - 2017

democratization has a sizeable negative effect on loan spreads: a one-point increase in the zero-to-ten Polity IV index of democracy …

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Átmenet vagy spontán rend(etlenség)?

Csaba, László - In: Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the … LIV (2007) 9, pp. 757-773

Az írás arra a kérdésre keresi a választ, hogy a két évtized után tartóssá, vagyis trenddé váló gazdasági és társadalmi eltérések a "posztkommunista" országok között milyen okokra vezethetők vissza. Másodsorban azt elemzi, mi a jelentősége e sokrétű különbségek...

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Global sustainability: the sequel

Davies, Robin - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

The Global Sustainability Panel (GSP), formed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2010, was asked to think big – to come up with a 'new development paradigm' and mechanisms for putting it into practice. Its product was, among other things, meant to help frame the forthcoming third...

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China as a Developmental State

Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

The paper examines the notion of a 'developmental state' and shows that China possesses the characteristics of a developmental state. It explains the political economy which generated such a state in China and in some other economies. It analyses the methods and mechanisms that were...

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Unbundling democracy: Political rights and civil liberties

BenYishay, Ariel; Betancourt, Roger - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 552-568

Much recent political economy and political science literature views democracy in terms of political rights. This view …, often referred to as electoral democracy, is particularly pronounced in the empirical literature. We reincorporate the role … of civil liberties, which are at the core of modern democracy, in two ways. We identify four fundamental sources of …

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Election induced fiscal and monetary cycles:evidence from the Caribbean

Peters, Amos C. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 44 (2010) 1, pp. 287-303

This study examines whether governments in the Caribbean systematically attempt to alter voter preferences through the use of fiscal and monetary policy tools during election periods. It also investigates whether governments reverse their pre-election excesses in the year after a general...

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The Impact of Institutional Environment on Inflows of Foreign Direct Investment in European Transition Economies and Latin American Countries

Mádr, Michal; Kouba, Luděk - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015 (2015) 1, pp. 45-60

cant areas – quality of democracy and government eff ectiveness – in the post-socialist countries, and all the … institutional areas except the level of democracy in Latin America, mainly regulatory quality and rule of law. …

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The Political Economy of State Capitalism and Shadow Banking in China

Tsai, Kellee - HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), … - 2015

The Xi-Li administration faces the dual challenge of managing state capitalism and shadow banking as China enters a phase of more moderate economic growth. During China's first three decades of reform, private sector development occurred in parallel with prioritization of state-owned enterprises...

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Towards Effective Emerging Infectious Diseases Surveillance: Evidence from Kenya, Peru, Thailand, and the U.S.‐Mexico Border

Ear, Sophal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper examines the political economy of emerging infectious disease (EID) surveillance programs. It provides lessons learned for U.S. military medical research laboratories collaborating with developing countries and is comprised of four case studies: Kenya (U.S. Army Medical Research...

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Banking behaviour and political business cycle in Africa : the role of independent regulatory policies of the central bank

Ofori-Sasu, Daniel; Agbloyor, Elikplimi Komla; Nsafoah, … - 2024

This study examines the effect of regulatory independence of the central bank in shaping the impact of electoral cycles on bank lending behaviour in Africa. It employs the dynamic system Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM) Two-Step estimator for a panel dataset of 54 African countries over the...

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