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Linkage Between Electoral Cycle and the Discouragement of African Firms in the Credit Market

open access: yesInternational Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the linkage between the electoral cycle and the discouragement of SMEs in the credit market of 14 African countries. It focuses on 12,145 firms over the period 2006–2020. The results obtained from Probit estimates show elections are negatively linked with the discouragement of firms in the credit market.
Cherif Abdramane, Simplice A. Asongu
wiley   +1 more source

Rebuilding Tripartism and Labor Standards From Below? Legitimation Politics and Risks Around Local Employment Standards

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Establishing voluntary labor standards depends on securing the voluntary engagement of multiple actors with potentially diverging interests. This paper examines the legitimation politics and processes surrounding attempts to develop local labor standards through an empirical study of local employment charters in England.
Ceri Hughes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Debating EU Actions Against Democratic Backsliding in Hungary: Shifting Government and Opposition Frames

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Research on democratic backsliding and on EU counter‐actions is growing rapidly, but we have only begun to understand how EU actions are taken up in domestic political debates in backsliding member states. Our research builds on the assumption that the framing of these debates contributes to the (de‐)legitimation of EU actions and thus has ...
Michael Blauberger, Arndt Wonka
wiley   +1 more source

Party‐Political Contestation of European Trade Policy. An Analysis of Roll Call Votes in the European Parliament

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the dimensionality of the EU external relations space by analysing trade policy votes in the European Parliament (1999–2019). As it contains the EU's full geographical and ideological diversity, the European Parliament is an important laboratory for testing expectations about what predicts divisions over trade policy.
Simon Otjes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trade liberalization and total factor productivity in Brazil: A vecm modeling. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Oliveira de Almeida E   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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