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granular bank-county-level data, we show that household consumption smoothing in response to the CTS was easier in financially …
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externalities between the two countries arise from cross-border bank ownership. The two countries face (i) a regulatory decision of … a decentralized way. In our benchmark model the two countries always agree on a centralized regulation policy. In … contrast, bailout policies are centralized only when international spillovers from cross-border bank ownership are strong, and …
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stablecoin issuers raises the challenge of how to apply technology-neutral regulation so that similar risks are subject to the …
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This paper investigates the impact of banking prudential regulation on sovereign risk. We show that prudential … regulation reduces sovereign risk and induces governments to spend more. As a result, countries with tight prudential regulation … have lower primary budget balances and accumulate more government debt over time. We find that prudential regulation …
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This paper documents that an appreciation of the U.S. dollar is associated with a reduction in the supply of commercial and industrial loans by U.S. banks. An increase in the broad dollar index by 2.5 points (one standard deviation) reduces U.S. banks’ corporate loan originations by 10...
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Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the social insurance system, which acts as a substitute for within-household insurance against economic shocks. In this paper, we quantify the importance of household-level insurance...
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We develop a model where firms profit from coercing workers into employment under conditions violating national law and international conventions and where bureaucrats benefit from accepting bribes from detected perpetrators. Firms and bureaucrats are heterogeneous. Employers differ in their...
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One of the key questions in the study of regulation is whether the costs of regulatory compliance fall homogeneously on …
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We investigate yardstick competition between local jurisdictions in which pure rent-seeking incumbents undertake an identical infrastructure project choosing be- tween two contractual arrangements with different financing profiles, namely traditional procurement (TP) and public-private...
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We develop a dynamic regulation game for a stock externality under asymmetric information and future market uncertainty …. Within this framework, regulation is characterized as the implementation of a welfare-maximization program conditional on …-consistent policy rules that implement the stochastic first best as long as a future market exists. We apply our theory to carbon …
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