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The political economy of finance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This survey reviews the recent literature on the political economy of financial development. Our goal is to highlight the impact of political institutions on financial structure, broadly defined to include not just the size of capital markets and banking
Perotti, E., Haber, S.
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Does the Political Environment Affect Inflows of Foreign Direct Investment? Evidence from Emerging Markets

open access: yesActa Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2015
The main aim of the paper is to identify and quantify the influence of the political environment on the inflows of foreign direct investment in emerging markets. The paper defines emerging markets as Middle Income Countries according to the evaluation of
Michal Mádr, Luděk Kouba
doaj   +1 more source

Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
wiley   +1 more source

Political uncertainty and cryptocurrency futures and spot market efficiency: evidence from the 2024 U.S. presidential election

open access: yesJournal of Applied Economics
This study investigates the impact of the 2024 U.S. presidential election on the relationship between cryptocurrency futures and spot markets. Using a range of financial econometric techniques, we analyze daily returns of Bitcoin futures and spot markets
Geesun Lee
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The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predictive accuracy of political stock markets: Empirical evidence from an European perspective [PDF]

open access: yes
In a meta study of 25 political stock markets conducted in Germany in the last decade we analyze their predictive success. Although the predictions of political stock markets are highly correlated with the corresponding polls, the markets are able to ...
Schmidt, Carsten, Berlemann, Michael
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Ambivalent Nature of Political Markets: Does It Undermine a Democracy?

open access: yesСоціологічні студії, 2018
This article is an attempt to analyze the contradictions of political marketing as a theory and technology. Various aspects of scholarly debate analyzed and various problems associated with application of political marketing are highlighted.
М. А. Beznosov
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
wiley   +1 more source

Markets in the Light of Political-Economic Actors and Democracy.Reconsidering Conceptual Framework for Sustainability Politics

open access: yes, 2014
The conceptual framework of neoclassical economics has been quite stable over the years while present challenges point in the direction of a need for new thinking and a new conceptual framework Neoclassical economics is more or less blind to equality ...
Peter SAderbaum
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Effects of international marketing environments on entrepreneurship development

open access: yesJournal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2018
Entrepreneurs all over the world seek ways of introducing their products to international markets; unfortunately, the international marketing environment poses a lot of opportunities and threats to foreign entrants.
M. E. Agwu, H. N. Onwuegbuzie
doaj   +1 more source

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