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Should courts always enforce what contracting parties write?

Anderlini, Luca (contributor); Felli, Leonardo (contributor) - 2006

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Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science

some issues that are significantworldwide, especially in Africa. It emphasises how the debate has movedalong in terms of …

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Trade and the Skill Premium Puzzle with Capital Market Imperfections

Bonfatti, Roberto; Ghatak, Maitreesh - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics; London … - 2010

An interesting puzzle is that trade liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s has been associated with a sharp increase in the skill premium in both developed and developing countries.This is in contrast with neoclassical theory, according to which trade should increase therelative return of the...

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Repayment Frequency in Micro nance Contracts with Present-Biased Borrowers

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

This paper analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of high-frequency repayment, a featurein nearly all microfinance contracts that has been largely overlooked by theorists. The pervasive belief among practitioners that frequent repayment is critical in achieving high repaymentrates is puzzling....

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Entrepreneurial talent, occupational choice, and trickle up policies

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Morelli, Massimo; Sjöström, Tomas - London School of Economics and Political Science; Ohio …; … - 2006

We study market inefficiencies and policy remedies when agents choose their occupations, and entrepreneurialtalent is subject to private information. Untalented entrepreneurs depress the returns to entrepreneurshipbecause of adverse selection. The severity of this problem depends on the outside...

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CREDIT AND GROWTH UNDER LIMITED COMMITMENT

AZARIADIS, COSTAS; Kaas, Leo - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

We consider a linear growth model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks in whichproducers cannot commit to repay their loans. Borrowing constraints are determinedendogenously by the borrowers’ incentives to repay, assuming that defaulters lose a shareof output and are excluded from future...

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Estimating the Peace Dividend: The impact of violence on house prices in Northern Ireland

Besley, Timothy; Müller, Hannes - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper exploits data on the pattern of violence across regionsand over time to estimate the impact of the peace process in NorthernIreland on house prices. We begin with a linear model that estimatesthe average treatment effect of a conflict-related killing on house prices-showing a negative...

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Intentions to participate in adolescent Training Programs: Evidence from Uganda

Bandiera, Oriana; Gulesci, Selim; Burgess, Robin; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

have implications for the design, management, and evaluation of similar programsthroughout East Africa.[...] …

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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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