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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments' respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

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Fiscal federalism, decentralization and economic growth : survey and meta-analysis

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2014

The theoretical literature on the economics of fiscal federalism has identified several potential effects of government decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision of public services. However,...

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Explaining inequality between countries : the declining role of political institutions

Hussey, Andrew; Jetter, Michael; McWilliam, Dianne - 2017

Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, "humanly devised" political institutions represent a hallmark factor that societies can influence, as opposed to, for example, geography. Focusing on the portion of inequality explainable by differences in political...

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Pushing one's luck : petroleum ownership and discoveries

Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Poelhekke, Steven - 2021

We present a new dataset that tracks changes in legal ownership regimes in the petroleum sector between 1867 and 2008 for a panel of countries. We document that foreign ownership has been taken over by partnerships as the leading ownership regime, while domestic ownership is on the rise again in...

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Donor ideology and types of foreign aid

Brech, Viktor; Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD countries over the period 1960]2009 and distinguish between multilateral and bilateral aid, grants and loans, recipient characteristics such as income and political institutions,...

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Globalization and the (mis)governance of nations

Blouin, Arthur; Ghosal, Sayantan; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2012 - This vers.: December 2011

We analyze whether or not the globalization of capital, "disciplines" governments and improves governance. We demonstrate that globalization affects governance, by increasing a country's vulnerability to sudden capital flight. This increased threat of capital flight can discipline governments...

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Collective memories on the 2010 European debt crisis

Arnemann, Laura; Konrad, Kai A.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

We examine whether collective memories on the aid&reform programs chosen to handle the 2010 European debt crisis differ between citizens from borrower and lender countries. We use new international survey data for non-experts and experts in member countries of the euro area. The results show...

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What drives financial development? : a meta-regression analysis

Doucouliagos, Chris; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020

This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results …

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The effect of schooling on parental integration

Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2024 - This version: December 16, 2024

schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents’ integration. My analysis links administrative records on … primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Using a regression … improves the integration of parents along several dimensions, such as labor market outcomes, financial worries, and German …

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The evidence on globalization

Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

Globalization is blamed for many socio-economic shortcomings. I discuss the consequences of globalization by surveying the empirical globalization literature. My focus is on the KOF indices of globalization (Dreher 2006a and Dreher et al. 2008a), that have been used in more than 100 studies....

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