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Tasting freedom: Happiness, religion and economictransition

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect allequally. This paper uses Hungarian survey data to study the impact ofreligion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvementcontributes positively to individuals’ self-reported well-being.Controlling for...

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The Expanding Geographic Reach of Retail Banking Markets

Radecki, Lawrence J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1998

, researchersand regulatory agencies assessing the effects of bank mergerson competition will examine the degree to whichdeposits in a …

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A quantitative analysis of the retail market for illicit drugs

Galenianos, Manolis; Gavazza, Alessandro - 2014

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Development patterns and institutional structures : China and India

Gupta, S. P. (ed.); Gupta, Shyama Prasad (contributor); … - 1995 - 1. publ.

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Contract Structure, Risk Sharing, and Investment Choice

Fischer, Greg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

Few micronance-funded businesses grow beyond subsistence entrepreneur-ship. This paper considers one possible explanation: that the structure ofexisting micronance contracts may discourage risky but high-expected returninvestments. To explore this possibility, I develop a theory that unies...

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Investment Choice and Inflation Uncertainty

Fischer, Greg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper investigates the relationship between inflation uncertainty and the investmentdecisions of small, microfinance-funded firms in the Dominican Republic. An extensive literature documents the array of opposing factors linking inflation uncertainty and investment;ultimately this...

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Risk Heterogeneity and Credit Supply: Evidence from the Mortgage Market

Besley, Timothy; Meads, Neil; Surico, Paolo - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

This paper uses a unique data set on more than 600,000 mortgagecontracts to estimate a credit supply function which allows for risk-heterogeneity. Non-linearity is modeled using quantile regressions. Wepropose an instrumental variable approach in which changes in the taxtreatment of housing...

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Potential Employment Effects of the Restructuring of Retail Banking

Radecki, Lawrence J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997

The largest U.S. commercial banks are currently in theprocess of restructuring their retail operations. A stagnantdeposit base and intense competition in the marketplacefor financial services have made the overhead costs of anextensive branch network increasingly onerous. At thesame time,...

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Banks’ Payments-Driven Revenues

Radecki, Lawrence J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

bankingindustry. This goal is served by taking a broad view of thepayments business and analyzing information provided bylarge bank …

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Supervisory Information and the Frequency of Bank Examinations

Hirtle, Beverly J.; López, José A. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

length of time between bank examinations affects thequality of information available to supervisors. For thesepurposes, we … condition of a bank. Our analysisassumes that examination information incorporates twotypes of data: information available from … information that can be obtained onlythrough on-site examinations, such as confidential informationabout a bank’s troubled assets …

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