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Reciprocal Brokered Deposits, Bank Risk, and Recent Deposit Insurance Policy

Li, Guo; Shaffer, Sherrill - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This study provides new evidence regarding reciprocal brokered deposits (RBDs), regulatory responses, and bank risk, contributing to prior studies in four ways. First, using updated financial Call Report data and bank failure data through 2012, we reexamine the moral hazard hypothesis that banks...

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Ranking Systemically Important Financial Institutions

Dungey, Mardi; Luciani, Matteo; Veredas, David - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

We propose a simple network–based methodology for ranking systemically important financial institutions. We view the risks of firms –including both the financial sector and the real economy– as a network with nodes representing the volatility shocks. The metric for the connections of the...

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What Types of Company Have Female and Foreign Directors?

Morikawa, Masayuki - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This paper analyzes the determinants of the presence and the number of female and foreign directors among Japanese companies. First, listed and long-established companies, subsidiaries, and unionized companies tend not to have female directors. On the other hand, owner-managed companies are...

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How do the poor handle money? What do the financial diaries of char dwellers tell us about financial inclusion?

Kuntala Lahiri–Dutt - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

Derived from livelihoods surveys and ethnographic material about people living on the chars, or river islands, in deltaic lower Bengal, this paper illustrates the complex, diverse and ingenious ways that the poor manage money. These islands constitute some of the most vulnerable locations...

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Inflation Volatility and the Inflation-Growth Tradeoff in India

Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Varsha S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

such volatility for India. It provides results on the determinants of inflation volatility and expected inflation …

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Networks and Anti-Poverty Programs: The NREG Experience

Shankar, Shylashri; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

threatened. India's national rural employment guarantee scheme's (NREG) institutional design (mandating village assemblies to …

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Inflation, Macroeconomic Policy and Hunger: A Variation on a Theme by C. Rangarajan

Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

This paper re-emphasizes the importance of price stability as a tool for macroeconomic policy and make it more specific by considering a typically (unanticipated) advantage of stabilizing the Consumer Price Index (CPI). I briefly review the recent economic growth performance of the Indian...

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Child Poverty and Compulsory Elementary Education in India: Policy Insights from Household Data Analysis

Chaudhri, D.P.; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

analysis. The paper uses household level data for 2004–05 (NSS 61st Round) and 1993–94 (NSS 50th Round) for India and also … demographic transition in India (particularly the movement in Total Fertility Rates across Indian states) during 1961 … poverty status at the all-India and the state levels are reported and commented upon. Changes in magnitudes & proportions of …

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Food security and small landholders in south Asia

Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

This paper surveys the status of food security in the South Asian countries, particularly India. Particular attention … households who are poor, and iii) rural households who are undernourished. The paper then singles out five disconnects in India …

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Body Mass Index, Participation, Duration of Work and Earnings under NREGS: Evidence from Rajasthan

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, Manoj K. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

in workfare programs, particularly in India. Using a unique data set for the Indian state of Rajasthan for 2009-10, this …

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