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Investor Sentiment and Employment
Montone, Maurizio; Zwinkels, Remco C.J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
We find that investor sentiment should affect a firm's employment policy in a world with moral hazard and noise traders …. Consistent with the model's predictions, we show that higher sentiment among US investors leads to: (1) higher employment growth … worldwide; (2) lower labor productivity, as the growth in employment is not matched by real value added growth; and (3) positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255878
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The Political Economy of Financial Systems
Haber, Stephen; Perotti, Enrico - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This survey reviews the literature on the political economy of financial structure, broadly defined to include the size of capital markets and banking systems as well as the distribution of access to external finance across firms.The theoretical literature on the institutional basis for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255875
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The Political Economy of Financial Fragility
Feijen, Erik; Perotti, Enrico - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
While financial liberalization has in general favorable effects, reforms in countries with poor regulation is often followed by financial crises. We explain this variation as the outcome of lobbying interests capturing the reform process. Even after liberalization, market investors must rely on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255930
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Bank Deregulation, Competition and Economic Growth: The US Free Banking Experience
Ager, Philipp; Spargoli, Fabrizio - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We exploit the introduction of free banking laws in US states during the 1837-1863 period to examine the impact of removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic stability in this period, we are able to isolate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256043
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Lobbying on Entry
Perotti, Enrico; Volpin, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
We develop a model of endogenous lobby formation in which wealth inequalityand political accountability undermine entry and financial development. In-cumbents seek a low level of effective investor protection to prevent potentialentrants from raising capital. They succeed because they can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256172
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The Political Economy of Finance
Perotti, Enrico - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This survey reviews how a recent political economy literature helps explaining variation in governance, competition, funding composition and access to credit. Evolution in political institutions can account for financial evolution, and appear critical to explain rapid changes in financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256233
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Investor Protection and Entry
Perotti, Enrico; Volpin, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
Entry requires external finance, especially for less wealthy entrepreneurs, so poor investor protection limits competition. We model how incumbents lobby harder to block access to finance to entrants when politicians are less accountable to voters. In a broad cross-section of countries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256887
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A general approach to integrated risk management with skewed, fat-tailed risks
Rosenberg, Joshua V. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The goal of integrated risk management in a financial institution is to measure and manage risk and capital across a range of diverse business activities. This requires an approach for aggregating risk types (market, credit, and operational) whose distributional shapes vary considerably. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002101503
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Ranking Systemically Important Financial Institutions
Dungey, Mardi; Luciani, Matteo; Veredas, David - Tinbergen Instituut - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255476
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How does risk management influence production decisions? evidence from a field experiment
Cole, Shawn; Gine, Xavier; Vickery, James - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2014
Weather is a key source of income risk, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving a sample of Indian farmers to study how an innovative rainfall insurance product affects production decisions. We find that insurance provision induces...
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