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This paper examines the impact of mass media and information and commu- nications technologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures on economic development. The results suggest that both mass media and ICT penetra- tion are negatively associated with corruption. This result holds across both...
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undiversifiable labor income risk. Optimal portfolios are internationally diversified while positive correlation between domestic … with a small amount of buffer stock saving, while exchange rate risk makes foreign investments less appealing to risk …
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labor income risk and stock-market participation costs. In contrast to the initial motivation, we find that the model is not …
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simultaneously matching stock market participation and individual asset holdings. The high risk premium is driven by incomplete risk … negligible impact on the risk premium, contrary to the results of models where it is imposed exogenously. …
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We show that a life-cycle model with realistically calibrated uninsurable labor income risk and moderate risk aversion … risk aversion. Households with low risk aversion smooth earnings shocks with a small buffer stock of assets and … consequently most of them (optimally) never invest in equities. Therefore, the marginal stockholders are (endogenously) more risk …
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We show that the level of interest rates determines the magnitude of mispricing at the turn of the tax year, as investors face the trade-o¤ between selling a temporarily depressed stock this year and selling next year, but delaying tax implications by one year. Interest rates do explain the...
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experiences of online risk among children, the affordances of SNS lend support to this possibility, attracting much policy and … second hypothesis stated that SNS users with more digital competence will encounter more online risk than those with less …) will encounter more online risk than those with fewer risky practices: this too was supported by the data; thus what …
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European self-regulation to ensure children's safety on social networking sites requires that providers ensure children are old enough to use the sites, aware of safety messages, empowered by privacy settings, discouraged from disclosing personal information, and supported by easy to use...
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