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        <title><![CDATA[Globalization And The Evolution Of Bank Capital Regulation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper traces the evolution of bank capital requirements from the 1800s, when it was a simple ratio, to the complex models used in Basel I and II. It goes on to introduce Enterprise Risk...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Private-Activity Municipal Bonds: The Political Economy Of Volume Cap Allocation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[State governments allocate authority, under a federally imposed cap, to issue tax-exempt bonds that fund &quot;Private activities&quot; such as industrial expansion, student loans, and low-income housing....]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can Political Factors Explain The Behavior Of Stock Prices Beyond The Standard Present Value Models?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper documents that political factors can be linked to the part of stock prices that cannot be explained by the standard present value models. The non-fundamental component of stock market...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Managerial Biases And Selective Hedging]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Using data on the selective hedging activity of a sample of 92 North American gold mining firms, the authors find that the degree of selective hedging is related to past performance of derivative...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Political Institutions, Voter Turnout And Policy Outcomes]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The authors question whether the impact of constitutions on economic outcomes (Persson and Tabellini, 2004) is direct. They show that voter turnout is a channel through which forms of government...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Politics And Fiscal Policy Under Lemass: A Theoretical Appraisal]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Lemass rejected Whitaker's recommendations that direct taxes be reduced and public investment shifted from social to productive areas. This was arguably done for political reasons and because...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Balancing Competimg Demands: Position-Taking And Election Proximity In The European Parliament]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Parties value unity, yet, members of parliament face competing demands, giving them incentives to deviate from the party. For Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), these competing demands are...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discrimination, Exclusion And Immigrants' Confidence In Public Institutions In Europe]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What determines the confidence of immigrants in public institutions? Using pooled data from the European Social Survey from 26 countries, the paper examines whether processes of social exclusion...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Impact Of Blog Recommendations On Security Prices And Trading Volumes]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Previous research and recent statements by the Securities and Exchange Commission indicate that e-mail spam and message board posts are often used to manipulate markets in a variation of the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Never Judge A Book By Its Cover - What Security Analysts Have To Say Beyond Recommendations]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The authors study analyzes the market reaction to the complete content of a large sample of analysts' reports in the period from 2002 to 2004 for the German market. In particular, they explore...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The American Jewish Committee's Annual Opinion Surveys: An Assessment Of Sample Quality]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The American Jewish Committee (AJC) surveys of Jewish opinion are unique both in being conducted annually and in the subject matter covered. This paper assesses the quality of these samples. The...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:16:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks And Balances?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Voters often dismantle constitutional checks and balances on the executive. If such checks and balances limit presidential abuses of power and rents, why do voters support their removal? The...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:11:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Political Theory Of Populism]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When voters fear that politicians may have a right-wing bias or that they may be influenced or corrupted by the rich elite, signals of true left-wing conviction are valuable. As a consequence,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:57:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[News Corp. Phone Hacking Scandal Now Political]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The author says the phone hacking scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has become more of a political story than a business story. &quot;What's been exposed here is the overly-cozy...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:50:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[GreenBiz-BSR Leadership Dinner: Part 2]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[GreenBiz.com gathered several prominent environmental journalists and the vice president of advisory services at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) for a panel discussion on how the 2008...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:01:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[GreenBiz-BSR Leadership Dinner: Part 3]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[GreenBiz.com gathered several prominent environmental journalists and the vice president of advisory services at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) for a panel discussion on how the 2008...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:00:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hacking The Earth Without Voiding Its Warranty]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Geoengineering may be the only solution to our myriad environmental crises, but that doesn't mean the world should rush into it headlong. In this webcast, the presenter talks about how we can keep...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:57:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Do Local Elections In Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence From Rural China]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/do-local-elections-in-non-democracies-increase-accountability-evidence-from-rural-china/2957705]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[The authors use unique survey data to study whether the introduction of local elections in China made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. They develop a simple model to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:23:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Data Breaches And Identity Theft]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper presents a monetary-theoretic model to study the implications of networks' collection of personal identifying data and data security on each other's incidence and costs of identity...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:42:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Political Economy Of Fiscal Deficits And Government Production]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper analyzes a framework where policymakers decide how to spend public resources on physical capital and labor in order to produce two public goods. Candidate policymakers disagree about...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:21:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Iran; Cash For Clunkers; The Federal Deficit]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Brookings scholars ponder the developments in Iran as the government cracks down on protests over the presidential election; the public weighs in on the &quot;Cash for clunkers&quot; legislation; and vice...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:09:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[President Obamas First Six Months In Office; Kurdish Elections In Iraq]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this webcast, Brookings experts release a composite index of national and global trends for the first six months of President Obama's term, lining them up against the same point in the five...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Partisanship On Capitol Hill]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Brookings takes an in-depth look at the polarizing effects of partisanship on Capitol Hill. Senior Fellow assesses the situation and offers some insight into how this way of doing business will...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Politics And Perils Of Guant&aacute;namo]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Opposition to trying alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in civilian court has led the Obama administration to consider a military tribunal instead. Meanwhile, controversy continues over...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Solutions For The Federal Deficit]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The national debt and our yearly deficits have reached staggering heights, just as the nation struggles to recover from a deep and persistent recession, says the presenter, senior fellow and...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Religion And Politics]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is there a relationship between religion and politics? Yes. Can faith-based doctrine influence election outcomes? Absolutely. Does this present a conflict with the doctrines put forth by the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 06:54:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Assessment Of The 2010 Midterm Elections]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this webcast, the presenter discusses the results of the 2010 midterm elections. Analyzing the rise of the tea party movement and the evolving attitudes of the American electorate, the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 06:53:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Politics And Process Of Congressional Redistricting]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Now that the 2010 Census is concluded, states will begin the process of reapportionment - re-drawing voting district lines to account for population shifts. A Nonresident Senior Fellow, the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Redistricting For Political Gains]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Every decade since 1790, a census of the entire U.S. population is used by state governments to apportion representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. But the redrawing of congressional...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[African Elections And Democracy]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nations across Africa are holding elections, a good sign for emerging democracies on the continent. However, the presenter says the quality of governance in African nations varies widely. Some...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Strengthening The Roles Of Political Parties In Public Accountability - A Case Study Of A New Approach In Political Party Assistance]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Donors in development cooperation increasingly emphasize the importance of public accountability in developing countries for the good functioning of democratic institutions, governance and the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Accountability Via Central Database Regimes In The Context Of NSW Political Donations]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The authors exploit unique features of the U.S. municipal bond underwriting market to assess how political integrity affects primary financial market outcomes. They show that state corruption and...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Securitization Is Not That Evil After All]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A growing number of studies on the US subprime market indicate that, due to asymmetric information, credit risk transfer activities have perverse effects on banks' lending standards. The authors...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Information Uncertainty Risk And Seasonality In International Stock Returns]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A parsimonious two-factor model containing the market risk factor and a risk factor related to earnings information uncertainty has been developed in order to explain the seasonal regularity of...]]></description>
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