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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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Excess Deaths in the United States During the First Year of COVID-19

Ruhm, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Accurately determining the number of excess deaths caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is hard. The most important challenge is accurately estimating the counterfactual count of baseline deaths that would have occurred in its absence. This analysis used new methods to: estimate this baseline metric;...

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Shackling the Identification Police?

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2018

This paper examines potential tradeoffs between research methods in answering important questions versus providing more cleanly identified estimates on problems that are potentially of lesser interest. The strengths and limitations of experimental and quasi-experimental methods are discussed and...

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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2004

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds after controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor supply has deleterious effects on cognitive development,...

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Healthy Living in Hard Times

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2003

Using microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during temporary economic downturns while leisure-time physical activity rises. The drop in tobacco use occurs disproportionately among...

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Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times : Evidence From the OECD

Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2002

This study uses aggregate data for 23 OECD countries over the 1960-1997 period to examine the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality and deaths from several common causes increase when labor markets strengthen. For instance,...

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Does Drinking Really Decrease in Bad Times?

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2001

This paper investigates the relationship between macroeconomic conditions, alcohol use, and drinking problems using individual-level data from the 1987-1999 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We confirm the procyclical variation in overall drinking identified in previous...

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Parental Leave and Child Health

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 1998

This study investigates whether rights to paid parental leave improve pediatric health, as measured by birth weights and infant or child mortality. Aggregate data are used for nine European countries over the 1969 through 1994 period. Year and country fixed-effects are held constant and most...

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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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