scholarly journals Deposit Insurance Around the Globe: Where Does It Work?

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aslı Demirgüç ◽  
Edward J Kane
Keyword(s):  
Financial Development ◽  
Deposit Insurance ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Market Discipline ◽  
Crisis Resolution ◽  
Private Market ◽  
Banking Stability ◽  
Country Differences ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Cross Country

Explicit deposit insurance has been spreading rapidly in recent years, even to countries with low levels of financial and institutional development. This paper documents the extent of cross-country differences in deposit insurance design and reviews empirical evidence on how particular design features affect private market discipline, banking stability, financial development and the effectiveness of crisis resolution. This evidence challenges the wisdom of encouraging countries to adopt explicit deposit insurance without first stopping to assess and remedy weaknesses in their informational and supervisory environments.

scholarly journals Financial development and prehistoric geographical isolation: global evidence

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oasis Kodila-Tedika ◽  
Simplice A. Asongu ◽  
Matthias Cinyabuguma ◽  
Vanessa S. Tchamyou
Keyword(s):  
Financial Development ◽  
Air Transportation ◽  
Geographical Isolation ◽  
Financial Intermediary ◽  
Stock Market Development ◽  
Information Sets ◽  
Country Differences ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Global Evidence

Using cross-country differences in the degree of isolation before the advent of technologies in sea and air transportation, we assess the relationship between geographical isolation and financial development across the globe. We find that prehistoric geographical isolation has been beneficial to development because it has contributed to contemporary cross-country differences in financial intermediary development. The relationship is robust to alternative samples, different estimation techniques, outliers and varying conditioning information sets. The established positive relationship between geographical isolation and financial intermediary development does not significantly extend to stock market development.

scholarly journals The gender gap in aversion to COVID-19 exposure: Evidence from professional tennis

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0249045
Author(s):  
Zuzanna Kowalik ◽  
Piotr Lewandowski
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Prize Money ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Professional Tennis ◽  
Country Differences ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Cross Country

We study the gender differences in aversion to COVID-19 exposure using a natural experiment of the 2020 US Open. It was the first major tennis tournament after the season had been paused for six months, held with the same rules and prize money for men and women. We analyze the gender gap in the propensity to voluntarily withdraw because of COVID-19 concerns among players who were eligible and fit to play. We find that female players were significantly more likely than male players to have withdrawn from the 2020 US Open. While players from countries characterized by relatively high levels of trust and patience and relatively low levels of risk-taking were more likely to have withdrawn than their counterparts from other countries, female players exhibited significantly higher levels of aversion to pandemic exposure than male players even after cross-country differences in preferences are accounted for. About 15% of the probability of withdrawing that is explained by our model can be attributed to gender.

R&D and Unionism: Comparative Evidence from British Companies and Establishments

ILR Review ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naercio Menezes-Filho ◽  
David Ulph ◽  
John Van Reenen
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Country Differences ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Difference ◽  
A Company

U.S. research has found that unionization adversely affects research and development investment, consistent with the view that labor unions' rent-seeking activities act as a tax on innovation. In this U.K. study, preliminary analysis of two datasets (a cross-section of plants and a company panel for the years 1983–90) shows the same negative correlation. This correlation completely disappears, however, when controls are included for such factors as cohort effects and the availability of innovative technology in the industry. Moreover, R&D intensity appears to have been higher in enterprises where there were low levels of union density than in those where there was no union presence. Some evidence suggests that the difference between U.K and U.S. results may be due to cross-country differences in the prioritization of non-pay issues in bargaining.

(A Study on Deposit Insurance Coverage and Market Discipline)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinho Lee ◽  
Hyunjae Jung ◽  
Kang Baek ◽  
Young Seog Park
Keyword(s):  
Deposit Insurance ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Market Discipline

How Does Firm Size Explain Cross-Country Differences in Ownership Concentration?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariborz Moshirian ◽  
Nguyen Thi Thuy ◽  
Jin Yu ◽  
Bohui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Firm Size ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Country Differences ◽  
Cross Country

Connections Between Cultures: Using Empirical Distributions for Measuring Cultural Differences

2020 ◽  
pp. 002202212098237
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Messner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Distance Measures ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Empirical Distributions ◽  
Leibler Divergence ◽  
Country Differences ◽  
Cross Country

The past few decades have seen an explosion in the interest in cultural differences and their impact on many aspects of business management. A noticeable feature of most academic studies and practitioner approaches is the predominant use of national boundaries and group-level averages as delimiters and proxies for culture. However, this largely ignores the significance that intra-country differences and cross-country similarities can have for identifying psychological phenomena. This article argues for the importance of considering intra-cultural variation for establishing connections between two different cultures. It uses empirical distributions of cultural values that occur naturally within a country, thereby making intracultural differences interpretable and actionable. For measuring cross-country differences, the Gini/Weitzman overlapping index and the Kullback-Leibler divergence coefficient are used as difference measures between two distributions. The properties of these measures in comparison to traditional group-level mean-based distance measures are analyzed, and implications for cross-cultural and international business research are discussed.

Cross-country differences in the use of management accounting tools

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunyan Li ◽  
Roberta J. Cable ◽  
Patricia Healy
Keyword(s):  
Management Accounting ◽  
Country Differences ◽  
Cross Country
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