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Politics-Business Co-evolution Paths : Workers’ Organization and Capitalist Concentration

Belloc, Marianna - 2012

Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...

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Regulation, Financial Crises, and Liberalization Traps

Marchionne, Francesco - 2019

regulation on the probability of a crisis. We test this relationship by applying a Probit model of a non-linear specification to …: it rises as regulation stringency moves from low to medium levels and falls from medium to high levels. Countries located …

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The Political Economy of the G20 Agenda on Financial Regulation

Schuknecht, Ludger - 2020

The paper empirically examines the implementation record of international financial regulation of the banking sector … record is particularly strong in countries where large banking sectors and big banks are both present, and where regulation …

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Climate Actions and Stranded Assets : The Role of Financial Regulation and Monetary Policy

Diluiso, Francesca - 2020

materialize. Financial regulation encouraging the decarbonization of the banks' balance sheets via tax-subsidy schemes …

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Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...

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The positive economics of labor market rigidities and investor protection

Fehn, Rainer; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2001

This paper presents a positive model which shows that institutional setups on capital and labor markets might be intertwined by politicoeconomic forces. Some countries especially in continental Europe exhibit a corporatist politicoeconomic equilibrium with a sustantial protection of insiders on...

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Regulating national firms in a common market

Biancini, Sara - 2008

We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national …

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The demands for environmental regulation and for trade in the presence of private mitigation

Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2008

We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … respect to the stringency of regulation. Moreover, even though trade has the potential to benefit everyone, the poor may … oppose trade openness because of a concern that laxer environmental regulation will then be imposed in the interest of the …

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The political economy of regulatory risk

Strausz, Roland - 2010

This paper investigates political uncertainty as a source of regulatory risk. It shows that political parties have incentives to reduce regulatory risk actively: Mutually beneficial pre-electoral agreements that reduce regulatory risk always exist. Agreements that fully eliminate it exist when...

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MIMIC models, cointegration and error correction: an application to the French shadow economy

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2008

The analysis of economic loss attributed to the shadow economy has attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Often, multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) models are applied to time series data estimating the size and development of the shadow economy for...

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