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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States

Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018

A positive economic growth is one crucial macroeconomic objective of every nation. Many countries have formed regional as well as international trading blocs in an attempt to enhance economic growth and maximise welfare of each member state, the AFTZ member states are not an exception. This...

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Self-regulation as a remedy for market turmoil: An over-the-counter or a prescription drug?

Senderski, Marcin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The paper tackles the problem of the overwhelming regulatory burden that marks its presence in a post-crisis environment. With evidence of regulatory overload in some cases, paths for more effective design of regulatory frameworks should be sought. Although self-regulation does not enjoy...

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Foreign direct investment, development and the new global economic order. A policy brief for the South

Singh, Ajit; Zammit, Josephine Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

Preface Over the last decade and a half the global economic order has been undergoing major changes. While this may be thought to reflect the results of a multilateral and participatory process involving debate and negotiations, in reality it has been mostly driven by the economic interests of...

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The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact on India’s External Sector

SREENILAYAM, DR JOMON MATHEW - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The term financial crisis refers to the loss of confidence in a country's currency or other financial assets causing international investors to withdraw their funds from the country. The financial crisis and associated recession originated in the US in early 2008 and then spread to Europe has by...

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Financial Crises and Bilateral Foreign Direct Investment Flows

Abdelaal Mahmoud, Ashraf - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Despite impressive studies on financial crises consequences and foreign capital flows, by large the research done has examined these economic phenomenons separately without addressing their nexus. This paper aims at bridging this gap by examining the impact of financial crises on bilateral...

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Geld

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This is a prepublication version of the German language version of the entry on ‘Money’ (‘Geld’) in the ‘Historisch Kritisch Wörterbuch des Marxismus’, a comprehensive dictionary of Marxist terminology being produced as an accompaniment to the Marx-Engels-Gesamt-Arbeite (Marx-Engels...

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Microeconomic determinants of losses in financial institutions during the crisis

Forte, Antonio; Cepparulo, Alessandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In this study we try to explain the inclusion of banks in the WDCI list proposed by Bloomberg. This list collects a group of more than 100 banking institutions which, during the crisis, suffered losses. We explain the probability of being part of the list (to suffer severe or highly severe...

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Central bank’s role and involvement in bank regulation: Lender of last resort arrangements and the Special Resolution Regime (SRR)

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper considers developments which have necessitated greater involvement and a greater role for the central bank … legislation such as the Banking Act of 2009 which has not only introduced greater statutory powers for the central bank, but also … the Special Resolution Regime. As well as a consideration of arguments which are in favour of the central bank’s role as …

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Is hazard or probit more accurate in predicting financial distress? Evidence from U.S. bank failures

Cole, Rebel A.; Wu, Qiongbing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

one-period probit model used by Cole and Gunther (1998). Using data on U.S. bank failures from 1985 – 1992, we find that …, from an econometric perspective, the hazard model is more accurate than the probit model in predicting bank failures, but … data from the 1980s performs surprisingly well in forecasting bank failures during 2009 – 2010. …

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Déjà vu all over again: The causes of U.S. commercial bank failures this time around

Cole, Rebel A.; White, Lawrence J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this study, we analyze why U.S. commercial banks failed during the recent financial crisis. We find that proxies for commercial real estate investments, as well as traditional proxies for the CAMELS components, do an excellent job in explaining the failures of banks that were closed during...

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