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Varieties of capitalism: the institutional foundations of comparative advantage

Peter A. Hall, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2001 - 
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In this paper, the authors highlight the role of business in national economies and show that there is more than one path to economic success, and explain national differences in social and economic policy.
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What are the most important differences among national economies? Is globalization forcing nations to converge on an Anglo-American model? What explains national differences in social and economic policy? This pathbreaking work outlines a new approach to these questions. It highlights the role of business in national economies and shows that there is more than one path to economic success.

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The Credit Crisis and The Moral Responsibility of Professionals in Finance

Johan Graafland, +1 more
- 18 May 2011 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate several codes of conduct of banks to identify the type of virtues that are needed to realize their mission and define three core virtues: honesty, due care, and accuracy.
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Great Punctuations: Prediction, Randomness, and the Evolution of Comparative Political Science

Mark Blyth
- 01 Nov 2006 - 
TL;DR: The authors argue that comparative politics has been shaped by two "great punctuations" that, on each occasion, transformed our conceptions of what the subfield is and what we do, and draw on probability theory to argue that the desire to be a predictive science causes us to imagine the world to be far more predictable than it actually is.
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Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World

Daron Acemoglu, +2 more
- 30 Aug 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model of technologically interconnected countries that benefit and potentially contribute to advances in the world technology frontier, showing that greater inequality between successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs increases entrepreneurial effort and a country's contribution to that frontier.
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The effect of cross-listing on the environmental, social, and governance performance of firms

Barbara Del Bosco, +1 more
- 01 Nov 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that cross-listing is associated with better environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance, because cross-listed firms adopt ESG practices to mitigate the liability of foreignness (LOF) in foreign financial markets.
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How do financial markets affect industrial relations: An Institutional Complementarity approach

Bruno Amable, +2 more
- 01 May 2005 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a simple formal model of institutional complementarity applied to industrial relations, and develop two important aspects of IC, namely static and dynamic aspects, and relate these to the interaction between financial relations and the outcome of a wage bargaining between firms and trade unions.