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Conference: "Finance and Development"
27-29 June 2007, London School of Economics, Room U8: Ground Floor, Tower 1

The aim of this conference is to disseminate findings from the World Economy and Finance research programme that advance knowledge in the area of finance & development, using approaches from various disciplines, including economics, finance, law and politics, to a high level audience of academics, policy makers and practitioners.

A full programme for the conference can be found here.

The following papers will be presented at the conference:

WEF0027
Annuities and Aggregate Mortality Uncertainty
Justin van de Ven, Martin Weale
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WEF0022
Financial Development, Openness and Institutions: Evidence from Panel Data
Badi H Baltagi, Panicos O Demetriades, Siong Hook Law
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WEF0023
Legal Origin, Shareholder Protection and the Stock Market: New Challenges from Time Series Analysis
Sonja Fagernas, Prabirjit Sarkar, Ajit Singh
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WEF0013
Norms, Legitimacy and Global Financial Governance
Geoffrey R D Underhill, Xiaoke Zhang
September 2006
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WEF0026
Empirical Evidence on the New International Aid Architecture
Stijn Claessens, Danny Cassimon, Bjorn van Campenhout
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WEF0025
Markets, Institutions, and Transaction Costs: The Endogeneity of Governance
Geoffrey R D Underhill
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WEF0015
The Political Economy of Global Financial Governance: The Costs of Basle II for Poor Countries
Stijn Claessens, Geoffrey R D Underhill, Xiaoke Zhang
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