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The political economy of consulting firms in reform processes: the case of the World Health Organization

Eckl, Julian; Hanrieder, Tine - In: Review of International Political Economy 30 (2023) 6, pp. 2309-2332

Existing research interprets the rise of consulting firms in intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) primarily as evidence of the global spread of managerialism. We highlight that consultants are not merely carriers of business-like world cultural norms, but also part of contentious IGO politics...

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Only strategic action? Private governance in the global sportswear industry

Schleifer, Philip - 2010

What motivates companies to invest in corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Analysing CSR in the global sportswear industry, this paper advances the hypothesis that the campaigning activities of human rights activists pushed industry leaders Nike and adidas to incorporate labour norms in their...

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The Torres Strait Treaty: A possible solution to the Aegean conflict

Pantazis, Panagiotis - In: CES Working Papers 14 (2022) 1, pp. 24-41

The Aegean conflict constitutes a dispute that has been affecting Greek-Turkish bilateral relations for the last five decades. It involves elements such as sovereignty, sovereign rights and national security. This paper suggests that the Torres Strait Treaty, an international agreement that...

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Measuring sovereign contagion in Europe

Caporin, Massimiliano; Pelizzon, Loriana; Ravazzolo, … - 2015

This paper analyzes sovereign risk shift-contagion, i.e. positive and significant changes in the propagation mechanisms, using bond yield spreads for the major eurozone countries. By emphasizing the use of two econometric approaches based on quantile regressions (standard quantile regression and...

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Stability of monetary unions: Lessons from the break-up of Czechoslovakia

Fidrmuc, Jan; Horvath, Julius; Fidrmuc, Jarko - 1999

In 1993, Czechoslovakia experienced a two-step break-up. On January 1, the country disintegrated as a political union, while preserving an economic and monetary union. Then, the Czech-Slovak monetary union collapsed on February 8. This paper analyzes the economic background of the two break-ups...

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Integration, disintegration and trade in Europe: Evolution of trade relations during the 1990s

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2000

Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union and the Baltics was very high around the time of disintegration, exceeding the normal level of trade … approximately 40 times. Disintegration has been followed by a sharp fall in trade intensity. On the other hand, the trade …

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Vertical separation as a defense against strong suppliers

Matsushima, Noriaki; Mizuno, Tomomichi - 2009

We provide a simple model to investigate decisions about vertical separation. The key feature of this model is that more than one input is required for the final product of the downstream monopolist. We show that as the bargaining powers of independent complementary input suppliers grow larger,...

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Disintegration and Trade

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2001

The gravity model of trade is utilized to assess the impact of disintegration on trade. The analysis is based on three … recent disintegration episodes involving the firmer Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The results point to a very … strong home bias around the time of disintegration, with intra-union trade exceeding nfirmal trade approximately 43 times in …

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Political Economy of Fiscal Unions

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2013

I formulate a political-economy model of a fiscal union where the threat of secession imposes a limit on fiscal redistribution between regions. I argue that the trade-off between implementing the region's preferred fiscal policy and benefiting from inter-regional risk sharing depends on the...

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How does international monetary leadership end? The Sterling Area revisited

De Bromhead, Alan; Jordan, David; Kennedy, Francis; … - 2021

1979 to understand the process of international economic disintegration. Using an original cross-national panel dataset, we …

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