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Caralee McLiesh
Researcher at International Finance Corporation
Publications - 21
Citations - 6376
Caralee McLiesh is an academic researcher from International Finance Corporation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Debt & Public good. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 21 publications receiving 5926 citations. Previous affiliations of Caralee McLiesh include World Bank.
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Private credit in 129 countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate cross-country determinants of private credit, using new data on legal creditor rights and private and public credit registries in 129 countries, and find that both creditor protection through the legal system and information sharing institutions are associated with higher ratios of the private credit to GDP.
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Debt Enforcement Around the World
Simeon Djankov,Simeon Djankov,Oliver Hart,Oliver Hart,Caralee McLiesh,Andrei Shleifer,Andrei Shleifer +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present insolvency practitioners from 88 countries with an identical case of a hotel about to default on its debt, and ask them to describe in detail how debt enforcement against this hotel will proceed in their countries.
World development report 2002 - building institutions for markets
Roumeen Islam,Alexander Dyck,Arup Banerji,Simeon Djankov,Caralee McLiesh,Asli Demirguc-Kunt,Russell Pittman,Robert Cull,Aart Kraay +8 more
TL;DR: The World Development Report (WDR) 2002 is about building market institutions that promote growth and reduce poverty, addressing how institutions support markets, what makes institutions work, and how to build them as mentioned in this paper.
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Who Owns the Media
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine patterns of media ownership in 97 countries around the world and find that almost universally the largest media firms are controlled by the government or by private families, and the adverse effects of government ownership on political and economic freedom are stronger for newspapers than for television.
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Debt Enforcement around the World
TL;DR: This article presented insolvency practitioners from 88 countries, and asked them to describe in detail how debt enforcement will proceed in their countries, using the data on time, cost, and the likely disposition of the assets (preservation as a going concern versus piecemeal sale) to construct a measure of the efficiency of debt enforcement in each country.