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Rony Pshisva, Gustavo Suarez

Издател: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

This paper measures the impact of crime on firm investment by exploiting variation in kidnappings in Colombia from 1996 to 2002. Our central result is that firms invest less when kidnappings directly target firms. We also find that broader forms of crime - homicides, guerrilla attacks, and general kidnappings - have no significant effect on

Издател: ETUI

Tim Congdon

Издател: IEA

The author covers the Northern Rock affair and the subsequent instability in the UK financial system in the context of the history and desired future role of the Bank of England as a central bank. Tim Congdon, a respected monetary economist, shows how the Bank of England failed in its duties to provide Northern Rock with proper lender-of-last

collective

Издател: CREDITANSTALT

collective

Издател: CREDITANSTALT