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We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children's educational attainment. We develop an empirical...
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Spending on big-time college athletics is often justified on the grounds that athletic success attracts students and raises donations. Testing this claim has proven difficult because success is not randomly assigned. We exploit data on bookmaker spreads to estimate the probability of winning...
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temporary increase in the government protection of non-deposit liabilities and bank assets. In most cases, these guarantees have …
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We study how a mortgage reform that exogenously increased access to credit had an impact on entrepreneurship, using individual-level micro data from Denmark. The reform allows us to disentangle the role of credit access from wealth effects that typically confound analyses of the collateral...
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I consider four policies created to address the financial crisis: (1) the ability-to-repay requirement in mortgage underwriting; (2) reform of rating agency compensation, (3) risk retention in securitization, and (4) mandatory loan renegotiation. I show that according to standard models,...
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bank failure rates in Michigan during the period 1932-1934, which includes the important Michigan banking crisis of early … purchases (the policy tool employed after March 1933) on bank failure rates. Our estimates treat the receipt of RFC assistance … assistance that are not directly related to failure risk) for analyzing the effects of RFC assistance on bank survival. We find …
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We analyze a variant of the Diamond-Dybvig (1983) model of banking in which savers can use a bank to invest in a risky … project operated by an entrepreneur. The savers can buy equity in the bank and save via deposits. The bank chooses to invest … in a safe asset or to fund the entrepreneur. The bank and the entrepreneur face limited liability and there is a …
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mismatch in their balance sheets. The data suggest that foreign banks had to borrow from the Federal Reserve Bank to meet their …
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We show that Eurozone bank risks during 2007-2012 can be understood as a "carry trade" behavior. Bank equity returns … exploit government guarantees, arbitrage regulatory risk weights, and access central-bank funding, we find that this carry …-GIPSI countries' banks, but not so for similar banks in other Western economies or for non-bank firms. …
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We analyze the effectiveness of consumer financial regulation by considering the 2009 Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act in the United States. Using a difference-in- differences research design and a unique panel data set covering over 160 million credit card...
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