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firms to cut investment, employment, and borrowing. We conclude that financial market fluctuations affect even private firms …
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By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to...
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This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household’s use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally...
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standing, affects college investment. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, we study a sample of young high school … intensive margin of college investment, but is less important for the extensive margin. Our results suggest that bad credit … status, which lowers the availability of unsecured credit to finance college and thereby makes college investment more …
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We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...
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as an instrument for investment in cattle. We find average returns in the order of -2% at the mean, but they vary across …
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positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …
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We study the implications of product market competition and investment for price setting, wage bargaining and thereby …
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investment in skill-intensive technologies. A public education system funded by graduate taxes can restore efficiency. More …
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The empirical identification of non-linearities in investment relies on how investment is assumed to be separated into … investment which allows us to observe regime separation, an aspect of the data that is typically absent from previous empirical … concentrating investment in a single year. Moreover, there is evidence that investment is more sensitive to fundamentals in the high …
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