This paper uses a large panel of financial flow data from banks to assess how institutions affect international lending. First, employing a time varying composite institutional quality index in a fixed-effects framework, the paper shows that institutional improvements are followed by significant increases in international finance. Second, cross-sectional models also show a strong effect of init...

Following the notion of skill-biased FDI fl ows from developed to less developed regions, high-skilled workers are likely to benefi t from FDI to a larger extent. They earn a productivity advantage that potentially transfers into a skilled wage premium. This gives rise to distributional confl ict that might turn into heterogeneous attitudes toward FDI infl ows in line with skill. In this paper ...

Emerging markets exhibit (1) high expected returns to capital and (2) large exposures to movements in US returns, measured by the ‘beta’ of the returns to the asset on the returns to its US counterpart. We document these facts in detail for two asset classes stock market returns and the return to aggregate capital and we provide further evidence from a third class sovereign bonds. We use a seri...

An important puzzle in corporate taxation is that effective tax rates have fallen significantly while tax revenue has simultaneously risen in most countries. Moreover, the gross profitability of firms seems to be lower in high-tax countries, even though standard models of international investment would yield the opposite conclusion. We offer an explanation for these stylized facts by setting up...

We examine how financial networks influence asset prices and trading performance. Consistent with theoretical studies on the role of communication networks in information dissemination, we posit that global financial institutions, having more extensive and strategic financial networks, can more efficiently acquire and process information pertaining to asset trading due to their better access to...

در این مقاله سیستم تأمین انرژی و تخلیه جریان سیم‌­پیچ چنبره‌ای توکامک دماوند به منظور افزایش زمان میدان‌های مغناطیسی با هدف ماندگاری پلاسما، طراحی شبیه‌سازی شده است. حال حاضر سیم­‌پیچ دارای نیم سیکل سینوسی مدت ms 100 پیک kA 12 است که میدان مغناطیس تقریباً T 1/1 مرکز چنبره تولید می‌کند ناحیه تخت آن حدود 20 می‌باشد برای تشکیل محصورسازی پلاسما استفاده می‌گردد. ارتقاء 200، ضروری سیستم‌های کنترل مربو...

Introduction Text analysis can significantly enrich ideas about the functioning of psyche in mental illness. Objectives The purpose this study was to identify linguistic features texts written by people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and relationship between them personality traits indicators standard living patients. Methods Twenty-nine patients (F20, F21, F23, F25 according ICD-10) 37 ...