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Effect of bank capital requirements on economic growth: a survey

Martynova, Natalya - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2015

This paper reviews studies exploring how higher bank capital requirements affect economic growth. There is little evidence of a direct effect; research focuses on the indirect effects of capital requirements on credit supply, bank asset risk, and cost of bank capital, which in turn can affect...

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Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm

Bogaard, Hein; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern HRM policies in an emerging market context. We have branch-level data and use our knowledge of the process that led to the adoption of the reforms to implement two estimators...

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Foreign Banks and Credit Stability in Central and Eastern Europe: Friends or Foes? A Panel Data Analysis

Haas, Ralph de; Lelyveld, Iman van - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2003

We study whether foreign and domestic banks in Central and Eastern Europe have reacted differently to business cycle conditions and host country banking crises. Our unique panel dataset comprises data of more than 300 banks for the period 1993-2000, with detailed information on bank ownership...

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Foreign Banks and Credit Stability in Central and Eastern Europe: A Panel Data Analysis

Haas, Ralph de; Lelyveld, Iman van - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2003

We study whether foreign and domestic banks in Central and Eastern Europe react differently to business cycle conditions and host country banking crises. Our unique panel dataset comprises data of more than 250 banks for the period 1993-2000, with detailed information on bank ownership and mode...

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Foreign Banks and Credit Stability in Central and Eastern Europe: Friends or Foes? A Panel Data Analysis

Haas, Ralph de; Lelyveld, Iman van - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2003

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Incentive Effects of Funding Contracts: An Experiment

Reiß, J. Philipp; Wolff, Irenaeus - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2012

We examine the incentive effects of funding contracts on entrepreneurial effort decisions and allocative efficiency. We experiment with funding contracts that differ in the structure of investor repayment and, therefore, in the incentives for entrepreneurial effort provision. Theoretically the...

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I Spy with my Little Eye... a Banking Crisis - Early Warnings and Incentive Schemes in Banks

Hakenes, Hendrik; Schlegel, Friederike - CESifo - 2014

The severity and depth of the recent financial crisis hit many by surprise. Despite warning signs, the financial system seems to have been unable to aggregate existing information. As the events of Fall 2008 showed, many investors were caught off guard by the large number of banks collapsing...

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Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data

Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …

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Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …

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