Cross-country evidence
Institutions and Economic Growth: A Cross country Evidence
... A Cross country Evidence The role of institutions in promoting economic growth and development has generated considerable interest among researchers and practitioners in recent ...
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Financial development and innovation: Cross-country evidence
... Innovation is vital for a country’s long-run economic growth and competitive advantage. As suggested in Porter (1992), “To compete effectively in international markets, a nation’s businesses must continuously innovate ...
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Institutions and Economic Growth: A Cross country Evidence
... A Cross country Evidence The role of institutions in promoting economic growth and development has generated considerable interest among researchers and practitioners in recent ...
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Bank regulation and systemic risk: cross country evidence
... Our findings do not suggest that bank regulation and supervision are detrimental to sys- temic stability, but instead call for the proper design and implementation of bank regula- tion. Literature on regulatory ...
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Cross Country Evidence on Consumption Persistence
... 20 Our results show that we cannot reject the presence of a significant process of persistence in aggregate consumption of the three countries and the null hypothesis of equal level or persistence could only be rejected ...
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Agglomeration and Growth : Cross-Country Evidence
... World Cross-Section Sample Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verte, Cen- tral African ...
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Rating in Microfinance: Cross Country Evidence
... weak evidence that subsidizing rating decreases its effectiveness and may actually lead to moral hazard; that is, once an MFis finds a grant to get rated, it slacks off and in the next reaches less poor ...
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Rating in Microfinance: Cross-Country Evidence
... some evidence for the moral hazard argument, namely that after receiving a good rating by a particular rater, some MFIs may slack off and show worse financial ...
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Finance, inequality, and poverty: cross-country evidence
... pure cross-country regressions, impose the restriction that there is at least 20 years difference between the first and last observation on the income share, and thus we have one observation per ...
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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence
... The dependent variable is Income Growth of the Poor, which equals the annual growth rate in the income per capita of the poorest quintile over the period 1960-1999. The regressors are as follows. Initial Income of the ...
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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay
... interpretations, and in some countries, performance pay may be available in some regions or schools but not in others. In addition, information was collected only on the availability of payment adjustments, but not on ...
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Intelligence and defense spending: a cross country evidence
... In the subsequent sections, we proceed with cross-country regression analysis of military expenditure rates across 159 nations during the 1990-2013 period. Table 1A lists all the countries included in the ...
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Financial regulation and performance : cross-country evidence
... Proposed reforms usually banks' securities activities are restricted, the likelihood of involve changes in financial regulations and supervisory a banking crisis is greater, othe[r] ...
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Openness and inflation volatility: cross-country evidence
... Instruments for mean inflation, monetary volatility, terms of trade volatility and output volatility are used only in equations in which those terms are included in the regressors.. Col[r] ...
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Essays in Labor Economics: Cross-Country Evidence
... In the literature on moving-out decisions, what remains largely unexplained is the mechanism regulating the positive causal relationship between paternal retirement and children’s nest-leaving. In this section, I start ...
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Tax Structure and Corruption: Cross-Country Evidence
... International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) produced by the firm Political Risk Services, that are constructed by different methods to compare our principal measure of ...
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Urbanization and Human Development Index: Cross country evidence
... All country level analysis suggests that the percentage of urbanization, total urban population, and percentage of the population living in million-plus agglomerations have a positive and statistically significant ...
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Entrepreneurial activity in the OECD: Pooled and cross-country evidence
... University of Zaragoza, Spain Abstract This paper analyzes the role of innovation, and other socio-demographic variables, in the entrepreneurial activity in the OECD. We use the index from the GEM 2014 Global Individual ...
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Decentralization (localization) and corruption : new cross-country evidence
... is generally not enough to have a significant effect on a government’s integrity. Increasing a government’s own revenues, taxation autonomy and financing it with unconditional formula-based transfers is an essential part ...
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Entrepreneurial activity in the OECD: Pooled and cross country evidence
... University of Zaragoza, Spain Abstract This paper analyzes the role of innovation, and other socio-demographic variables, in the entrepreneurial activity in the OECD. We use the index from the GEM 2014 Global Individual ...
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