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Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions

Ellis, Jesse - 2011

Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...

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Why Does Fast Loan Growth Predict Poor Performance for Banks?

Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger - 2016

From 1973 to 2014, the common stock of U.S. banks with loan growth in the top quartile of banks over a three-year period significantly underperforms the common stock of banks with loan growth in the bottom quartile over the next three years. The benchmark-adjusted cumulative difference in...

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The Determinants of Trust

Alesina, Alberto - 2000

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors that reduce trust are: i) a recent history of traumatic experiences, even though the passage of time reduces this effect...

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Fiscal Policy, Profits, and Investment

Alesina, Alberto - 1999

This paper evaluates the effects of fiscal policy on investment using a panel of OECD countries. In particular, we investigate how different types of fiscal policy affect profits and , as a result, investment. We find a sizable negative effect of public spending -- and in particular of its...

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Who Adjusts and When? On the Political Economy of Reforms

Alesina, Alberto - 2006

Why do countries delay stabilizations of large and increasing budget deficits and inflation? And what explains the timing of reforms? We use the war of attrition model as a guidance for our empirical study on a vast sample of countries. We find that stabilizations are more likely to occur when...

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Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities

Alesina, Alberto - 2001

The poor favor redistribution and the rich oppose it, but that is not all. Social mobility may make some of today's poor into tomorrow's rich and since redistributive policies do not change often, individual preferences for redistribution should depend on the extent and the nature of social...

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Economic Integration and Political Disintegration

Alesina, Alberto - 1997

Trade liberalization and political separatism go hand in hand. In a world of trade restrictions, large countries enjoy economic benefits because political boundaries determine the size of the market. In a world of free trade and global markets even relatively small cultural, linguistic or ethnic...

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The Effects of Fiscal Consolidations : Theory and Evidence

Alesina, Alberto - 2017

We investigate the macroeconomic effects of fiscal consolidations based upon government spending cuts, transfers cuts and tax hikes. We extend a narrative dataset of fiscal consolidations, with details on over 3500 measures for 16 OECD countries. We show that government spending cuts and cuts in...

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Are Larger Banks Valued More Highly?

Minton, Bernadette A. - 2017

of a within-bank negative relation between valuation and size for large banks from 1987 to 2006 but not when the post …-Dodd-Frank period is included in the sample. The negative relation between bank value and bank size for large banks cannot be … Tobin's q lower by 0.2% in regressions with year and bank fixed effects. This relation between bank value and trading assets …

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Why Does Capital No Longer Flow More to the Industries with the Best Growth Opportunities?

Lee, Dong - 2016

With functionally efficient capital markets, we expect capital to flow more to the industries with the best growth opportunities. As a result, these industries should invest more and see their assets grow more relative to industries with the worst growth opportunities. We find that industries...

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