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The effects of school competition on academic achievement and grading standards
Himmler, Oliver - 2009
outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school … performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and … academic achievement is found. In addition to raising achievement, higher levels of competition are not associated with a …
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The Impact of Fintech Startups on Financial Institutions' Performance and Default Risk
Haddad, Christian; Hornuf, Lars - 2021
We examine the impact of fintech start-ups on the performance and default risk of traditional financial institutions. We find a positive relationship between fintech start-up formations and incumbent institutions’ performance for the period 2005–2018 and a large sample of financial...
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Effect of Information and Communication Technologies on Urban Structure
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Overman, Henry G.; … - 2021
Two innovations in the last century have changed dramatically the cost of communicating and transmitting information: The first is the widespread adoption of telephony; the second is the internet. We study the implications of these changes in ICT for urban structure. We find robust evidence that...
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Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2020
This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...
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Tech in Fin Before FinTech : Blessing or Curse for Financial Stability?
Pierri, Nicola - 2020
adoption for financial stability. We estimate bank-level intensity of IT adoption before the global financial crisis using a … novel dataset that provides information on hardware used in US commercial bank branches after mapping them to their parent … bank. We find that higher intensity of IT-adoption led to significantly lower non-performing loans when the crisis hit …
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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide
Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
. Epidemic exposure is associated with an increase in remote-access (online/mobile) banking and substitution from bank branch …
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Carbon Default Swap - Disentangling the Exposure to Carbon Risk Through CDS
Blasberg, Alexander; Kiesel, Ruediger; Taschini, Luca - 2022
Using Credit Default Swap spreads, we construct a forward-looking, market-implied carbon risk factor and show that carbon risk affects firms’ credit spread. The effect is larger for European than North American firms and varies substantially across industries, suggesting the market recognises...
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How should financial intermediation services be taxed?
Lockwood, Benjamin - 2010
This paper considers the optimal taxation of savings intermediation and payment services in a dynamic general equilibrium setting, when the government can also use consumption and income taxes. When payment services are used in strict proportion to final consumption, and the cost of...
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Dynamics and Endogeneity of Firms' Recruitment Behaviour
Ehrenfried, Felix - 2019
Models of random search, directed search, or stock-ow matching differ substantially in the way they assume that job seekers and firms behave during the recruitment process. In this paper we identify new patterns about the recruitment behaviour of firms using the entropy balancing technique and...
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What Kind of EU Fiscal Capacity? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment in Five European Countries in Times of Corona
Beetsma, Roel - 2020
Based on a conjoint survey experiment we explore the support among European citizens for a European Union (EU) budgetary assistance instrument to combat adverse temporary or permanent economic shocks hitting Member States. Suitably designed, there is quite substantial support for such an EU...
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