Law and politics had a significant impact on stock market development in Germany between 1870 and the beginning of World War II. IPOs can be a bellwether...
The fall of fascism in Italy in 1943-1944 was followed by the issuance of laws and decrees that made former fascist politicians ineligible for political...
We study how political factors can shape competition in the mobile telecommunication sector. We show that the way a government designs the rules of the...
This article responds to the question: “Capitalism: What has gone wrong, what needs to change and how to fix it” for a special volume on capitalism in...
In 2015, the Chinese Communist Party embarked on an unprecedented policy: writing itself into the corporate charters of many of the country’s...Read more
Throughout history, economic activities have been fundamentally shaped by ideology. Scholars usually consider ideology as a set of ethical ideas,...Read more
Despite predictions of their demise in the aftermath of the collapse of socialist economies in Eastern Europe, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are...Read more