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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction

Morck, Randall K. - 2005

This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …

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Good bye Lenin (or not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries. In this paper, we test whether there exists a feedback process of the economic regime on individual preferences. We exploit the "experiment" of German separation and...

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Flexibility and Job Creation : Lessons for Germany

Heckman, James J. - 2002

This paper examines the performance of the German economy and the role of the regulation and welfare state policies in affecting its performance. While the German economy is still strong, incentives in place are likely to impair future German competitiveness and productivity

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Politics, Relief, and Reform : The Transformation of America's Social Welfare System during the New Deal

Wallis, John Joseph - 2005

The American social welfare system was transformed during the 1930s. Prior to the New Deal public relief was administered almost exclusively by local governments. The administration of local public relief was widely thought to be corrupt. Beginning in 1933, federal, state, and local governments...

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Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State : Confederate Pensions in the American South

Eli, Shari - 2015

Beginning in the 1880s, southern states introduced pensions for Confederate veterans and widows. They continued to expand these programs through the 1920s, while states outside the region were introducing cash transfer programs for workers, poor mothers, and the elderly. Using legislative...

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Real-Time Price Discovery in Stock, Bond and Foreign Exchange Markets

Andersen, Torben G. - 2005

We characterize the response of U.S., German and British stock, bond and foreign exchange markets to real-time U.S. macroeconomic news. Our analysis is based on a unique data set of high-frequency futures returns for each of the markets. We find that news surprises produce conditional mean...

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Good versus Bad Deflation : Lessons from the Gold Standard Era

Bordo, Michael D. - 2004

experience of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany in the late nineteenth century during a period characterized by …

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Sources of Funds and Investment Activities of Venture Capital Funds : Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK

Mayer, Colin - 2003

We compare sources of funds and investment activities of venture capital (VC) funds in Germany, Israel, Japan and the … particularly important in Germany, corporations in Israel, insurance companies in Japan, and pension funds in the UK. VC investment … countries; for example, bank backed VC funds in Germany and Japan are as involved in early stage finance as other funds in these …

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COVID-19 and SME Failures

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020

We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...

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Inflation and Activity – Two Explorations and their Monetary Policy Implications

Blanchard, Olivier - 2015

We explore two issues triggered by the crisis. First, in most advanced countries, output remains far below the pre-recession trend, suggesting hysteresis. Second, while inflation has decreased, it has decreased less than anticipated, suggesting a breakdown of the relation between inflation and...

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