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​We study the interaction of matching and credit frictions in the housing market. In the model, risk-averse households … of matching frictions. We also show that credit frictions greatly magnify the effects of matching frictions. For instance …, in the presence of matching frictions, a moderate tightening of the borrowing constraint increases idiosyncratic price …
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. The search and matching approach first accounts for the time needed to restore normal functioning of financial markets …
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This paper provides an early warning indicator for bubbles in financial markets. The indicator is based on traditional unit root tests, more precisely on the augmented Dickey-Fuller test and may be used in a repeated manner with rolling samples. The performance of the indicator is tested...
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-Miller irrelevance theorem. This paper combines dividend signalling theories and the Diamond-Dybvig bank run model. An opaque bank must … signal its solvency by paying high and stable dividends in order to keep depositors tranquil. This signalling may require …
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This paper shows how frictions in the labor market shape the responses of the economy to government spending shocks. The open economy New Keynesian DSGE model is extended by labor market frictions of the Mortensen-Pissarides type and a detailed description of fiscal policy. The nature of...
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We improve the precision of the test of the implicit contract model that Beaudry and DiNardo proposed twenty years ago. Our data set allows us to define the precise industry and plant of a particular employment relationship, link local labour market characteristics and company characteristics to...
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, such as knowledge spillovers, business connections and improved access to private information that have a positive effect …, less central community. Our tests provide novel evidence of information spillovers and networking opportunities in big … cities that can directly affect how CEOs are compensated. Such sources of information and influence represent something for …
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We investigate the relationship between chief executive officer (CEO) compensation and innovation. In an empirical examination of compensation contracts of S&P 400, 500, and 600 firms we find that long-term incentives in the form of options are positively related to patents and citations to...
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We develop a business cycle model with gross flows of firm creation and destruction.The credit market is characterized by two frictions. First,entrepreneurs undergo a costly search for intermediate funding to create a firm. Second, upon a match, a costlystate-verification contract is set up....
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​This paper analyses euro area Beveridge curves at the euro area aggregate and country level over the past 25 years. Using an autoregressive distributed lag model we find a significant outward shift in the euro area Beveridge curve since the onset of the crisis, but considerable heterogeneity...
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