Thirty years ago, a vast share of low- and middle-income countries was heavily state controlled. The liberalizations of the 1980s and 1990s had greatly different effects on growth in countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe. A comparative framework is used to document these differences, and a model...

In this paper, we examine time and country specific institutional effects on CSR disclosures by big bank in fourteen Western European banks. For time effect, we compared banks' CSR disclosures in 2005, when societal expectation of banks' CSR disclosures was considered low, to their CSR...

How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Europe? Many studies have tackled this question, with mixed results. This paper proposes an eclectic approach and gives a clearer answer to the issue.Orthodox criticisms of European government...

Post-World War II, much of international law and comparative law has been directed to the question of securing human rights. As rights jurisprudence developed, so too did a focus on national and international courts as the source of the basic guarantees owed to citizens by all states. As a...

A newly emerged normative development idea of sustainability has been evolving, which was institutionalised by the UN in 2015, and which strongly reinforced, as an exogenous factor, all the responsible and accountable governments and other society actors within a country. In this context,...

How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe, relative to industrialized Pacific Rim countries? Orthodox criticisms of European government institutions are right in some cases and wrong in others. Protectionist labor-market...

This paper uses data for the UK and the Netherlands (1983q4-2011q4) to test if hysteresis occurs in these economics, and through what mechanisms. The novelty of the paper resides in the use of a VAR-IRF that encompasses previous hysteresis studies and the use of specific Labour Market...