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Corporate Governance in State-Owned and Privately-Owned Enterprises

by Despoina Chouliara Abstract In this paper I examine the principal/agency relationship in corporate governance and introduce it in a steady state growth model. More specifically, I will model a profit-maximizing privately-owned enterprise and a series of state-owned enterprises with varying economic goals. I will use the insights of agency theory to revisit the debate […]

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The Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth a Regional Comparative Study

By Paige Muggeridge I use a reduced form regression model to determine the extent to which population aging accounts for economic growth in each of the nine regions of the world. Predominantly, I build upon the research of Bloom et al. (2010), which is central to formulating my regression equation. I separate the difference between […]

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Faith in the Future and Social Conflict: Economic Growth as a Mechanism for Political Stabilization

By Alexander Bloedel This paper studies the mechanisms that link sociopolitical conflict and (expectations about) economic prosperity. Motivated by a large body of empirical and historical work on the correlation between economic development and democratization, I develop a game-theoretic model of economic growth with political economy constraints. In an economy where low income agents are […]

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