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Trade and Credit Reallocation : How Banks Help Shape Comparative Advantage
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2019
capital standards, and cost of bank equity determine credit reallocation, sectoral expansion and trade patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892187
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How Does Unethical Behavior Spread? Gender Matters!
Name, No; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Wasserka-Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2023
Using an online experiment with two distinct dishonesty games, we analyze how dishonesty in men and women is influenced by either thinking or learning about the dishonesty of others in a related, but different situation. Thinking is induced by eliciting a belief about others’ dishonesty in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358653
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Banking crises and crisis dating: Theory and evidence
Boyd, John H.; De Nicolò, Gianni; Loukoianova, Elena - 2010
-based measures of systemic bank shocks (SBS). These measures differ from 'banking crisis' (BC) indicators employed in many empirical … studies, which are constructed using primarily information on government actions undertaken in response to bank distress … that BC indicators actually measure lagged policy responses to systemic bank shocks. We then re-examine the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272761
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Bank competition, asset allocations and risk of failure: An empirical investigation
Boyd, John; De Nicolò, Gianni; Jalal, Abu M. - 2010
This study is an empirical investigation of theoretical predictions concerning the impact of bank competition on bank … banking increases, the loan-to-asset ratio will rise (under reasonable assumptions), but the probability of bank failure can … either increase or decrease. However, the probability of bank failure will fall if and only if borrowers' response to take on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274944
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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay
Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139418
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Politics-Business Co-evolution Paths : Workers’ Organization and Capitalist Concentration
Belloc, Marianna - 2012
Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116042
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Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus : Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists
Avery, Christopher - 2020
influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833728
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Economic Policy Uncertainty : Persistence and Cross-Country Linkages
Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel - 2020
This paper provides new evidence on the stochastic behaviour of the EPU (Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index constructed by Baker et al. (2016) in six of the biggest economies (Canada, France, Japan, US, Ireland, and Sweden) over the period from January 1985 to October 2019. In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833734
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The Global Effects of COVID-19-Induced Uncertainty
Caggiano, Giovanni - 2020
We estimate a three-variate VAR using proxies of global financial uncertainty, the global financial cycle, and world … outbreak. We predict the cumulative loss in world output one year after the uncertainty shock due to Covid-19 to be about 14% …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834352
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Do Multinational Firms Use Tax Havens to the Detriment of Other Countries?
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2020
The use of tax havens by multinational corporations (MNCs) has attracted increasing attention and scrutiny in recent years. This paper provides an exposition of the academic literature on this topic. It begins with an overview of the basic facts regarding MNCs' use of havens, which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834357