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, profitability, investment, and stock returns for firms in the 'crisis' country as well as competitors in the rest of the world … capital investment and stock returns (and therefore expected long-run output and profits) is determined by capital …
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Using a unique new dataset linking administrative data on investment performance and financial knowledge, we examine …
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This paper outlines a tractable cost-benefit analysis of the buffer stock financial services provided by international reserves and applies it to 8 of the largest Emerging Markets (BRICS, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey) during 2000-2019. The efficient management of international reserves generates...
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Using a novel, high frequency dataset on capital control actions in 16 emerging market economies (EMEs) from 2001 to 2012, we provide new insights into the domestic and multilateral effects of capital controls. Increases in capital account openness reduce monetary policy autonomy and increase...
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Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50 percent of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few...
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We study how environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing reshapes information aggregation by prices. We develop a rational expectations equilibrium model in which traditional and green investors are informed about financial and ESG risks but have different preferences over them. Because...
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This study provides an economic analysis of the determinants and consequences of corporate social responsibility (CSR …) and sustainability reporting. To frame our analysis, we consider a widespread mandatory adoption of CSR reporting … effects of CSR activities and policies themselves. It draws on an extensive review of the relevant academic (CSR and non-CSR …
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responsibility (CSR). Our natural field experiment, in which we created our own firm and hired actual workers, generates a rich data … set on worker behavior and responses to both pecuniary and CSR incentives. Making use of a novel identification framework … treatment and selection effects of both CSR and financial incentives. Using data from more than 1100 job seekers, we find strong …
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the underlying mechanisms, we find that firms rely more on recycling and abatement investment than on innovations when …
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We document that investors derive nonpecuniary utility from investing in dual-objective VC funds, thus sacrificing returns. Impact funds earn 4.7 percentage points (ppts) lower IRRs ex post than traditional VC funds. In random utility/willingness-to-pay (WTP) models investors accept 2.5-3.7 ppts...
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