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The value of human rights on the open market: Liberal economic policies and the achievement of personal integrity rights.
Harrelson-Stephens, Julie - 2003
state, on the whole. Specifically, I examine three aspects associated with globalization, trade openness, investment and IMF … that open trade and investment lead to improved personal integrity rights. In addition, investment which originates from … the hegemon is especially likely to increase a state's respect for personal integrity rights. Conversely, IMF funding is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475090
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The Effects of Bilateral and Regional Investment Agreements on the FDI Inflows into ASEAN Countries
Booppanon, Sarasin - 2007
The competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) has resulted in manydeveloping countries resorting to international … investment agreements (IIAs) as a legalmechanism to encourage FDI based on the basis that these international commitments aremore …-location-internalization (OLI) framework to investigate the extentto which investment agreements play a role in attracting FDI inflows from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458904
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ESSAYS IN DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMICS
Reinhold, Steffen - 2008
In the ¯rst of the essays, I reassess the relationship between premarital cohab-itation and marital instability both theoretically and empirically. It has become astylized fact that premarital cohabitation is positively correlated with the likelihood ofmarital dissolution. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429603
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Three Essays on Semiparametric Econometric Evaluation Methods
Maier, Michael - 2008
This dissertation introduces three novel approaches for the econometric evaluation of heterogeneous treatment effects. The proposed methods consider the effects of a binary treatment on different characteristics of the outcome distribution.Section 1 proposes an estimation method for various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471606
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Interlinked Transactions in Cash Cropping Economies: The Determinants of Farmer Participation and Performance in the Zambezi River Valley of Mozambique
Benfica, Rui M.S.; Tschirley, David L.; Boughton, Duncan - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of participation and performance of tobacco contract farmers, and the effects of participation on overall crop and household incomes in the Zambezi Valley of Mozambique. We test the existence of threshold effects in land holdings and educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444299
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The impact of the euro on euro area GDP per capita
Fernández Vidaurreta, Cristina; García Perea, Pilar - 2015
Este artículo aborda la siguiente pregunta: ¿cuál habría sido el PIB per cápita del área del euro si no se hubiese creado la unión monetaria? Para intentar contestarla, utilizamos la metodología de control sintético [Abadie y Gardeázabal (2003) y Abadie et al. (2010)]. Nuestros...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530489
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"Revision of the SDR: an external consequence of Europe's monetary union."
Jensen, Keith Christian. - 1991
In this paper 1 consider a revision of the IMF's Special Drawing Rights (SDR) that may result from the adoption of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463750
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"Revision of the SDR: an external consequence of Europe's monetary union."
Jensen, Keith Christian. - 1991
In this paper 1 consider a revision of the IMF's Special Drawing Rights (SDR) that may result from the adoption of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463756
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The efficiency of early warning indicators for financial crises
Rabe, Jens Michael - 2000
The banking and currency crises of the last two decades inflictedsubstantial financial, economic, and social damage on thecountries in which they originated. In this work, the efficiencyof early warning indicators for these disastrous economic eventsis evaluated. An analysis of the traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471830
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Corporate governance of public sector in emerging economies: Case of Brunei Darussalam
Yapa, P - 2010
The objective of this paper is to examine how the public sector corporate governance in Brunei Darussalam - a member of ASEAN - is embedded in country's political and economic environment. Specifically,the misappropriation of billions of public funds in 1997 led to serious financial problems and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481554