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Private money and money market integration: The role of payments infrastructure in nineteenth‐century Switzerland

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Using newly collected discount rate data for six Swiss cities from 1846 to 1893, we find no evidence of increasing integration during a 30‐year period of lightly regulated free banking. We attribute this to two structural issues: banks had incentives to ward off competitors by protecting their local monopolies or forming cartels, and there was
Daniel Kaufmann, Rebecca Stuart
wiley   +1 more source

Love and the Basis of Dignity

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
wiley   +1 more source

Reimagining State Aid: Guiding Law and Policy Reform in a Changing World

open access: yesEuropean Law Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU state aid law has shifted fundamentally from an originally purely repressive tool to a proactive steering mechanism for critical EU goals today. This paper argues that the current legal framework in Article 107 TFEU is gravely misaligned with this new function.
Thomas Jaeger
wiley   +1 more source

From Audit to Prosecution: Institutional Collaboration as a Solution to Closing the Expectations Gap in Decentralized Governance

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A long‐standing topic of concern in the literature on governmental auditing is whether the aims of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) or other central audit institutions should include detecting fraudulent use of public money. The balance of opinion has been against this proposition, largely for reasons of infeasibility.
Michael Barzelay, Sérgio N. Seabra
wiley   +1 more source

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