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Trade Costs, Market Access and Economic Geography : Why the Empirical Specification of Trade Costs Matters
Bosker, Erik Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2021
Trade costs are crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data requires the approximation of trade costs. Most NEG studies do not deal with the ramifications of the particular trade costs specification used. This paper shows that the specification...
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Bank Bonus Pay as a Risk Sharing Contract
Efing, Matthias - 2019
We argue that risk sharing motivates the bank-wide structure of bonus pay. In the presence of financial frictions that make external financing costly, the optimal contract between shareholders and employees involves some degree of risk sharing whereby bonus pay partially absorbs earnings shocks....
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Tenure Choice, Portfolio Structure and Long-Term Care - Optimal Risk Management in Retirement
Fehr, Hans - 2019
We study the interplay between tenure decisions, stock market investment and the public social security system. Housing equity not only serves a dual purpose as a consumption good and as an asset, but also provides insurance to buffer various risks in retirement. Our life cycle model captures...
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Voluntary Equity, Project Risk, and Capital Requirements
Haufler, Andreas; Lülfesmann, Christoph - 2022
We introduce a model of the banking sector that formally incorporate a buffer function of capital. Heterogeneous banks choose their portfolio risk, bank size, and capital holdings. Banks voluntarily hold equity when the buffer effect against the risk of default outweighs the cost advantages of...
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Can Time-Varying Currency Risk Hedging Explain Exchange Rates?
Bräuer, Leonie; Hau, Harald - 2022
bond positions, which creates a net hedging demand for dollar assets that depreciates USD rates in both the forward and … spot markets. We document the time-varying nature of this net hedging demand and show how it relates to eco … FX hedging pressure can account for approximately 30% of all monthly variation in the seven most important dollar …
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The crisis in the foreign exchange market
Melvin, Michael; Taylor, Mark P. - 2009
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 had major implications for the foreign exchange market. We review events and implications for exchange rates, volatility, returns to currency investing, and transaction costs. This blow-by-blow" narrative is intended to be a resource for researchers seeking a...
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Overlapping Climate Clubs Under Transaction Costs
Delfino Silva, Emilson - 2019
We examine the formation of multilateral, hub-and-spoke and bilateral international R&D strategic alliances (overlapping climate clubs) to reduce CO2 emissions. R&D provision in clubs produces two types of positive externalities: a global public good (i.e., reduction of CO2 emissions) and...
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Import Processing and Trade Costs
Carballo, Jerónimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2021
costs. Our theory considers that shipment processing times at the port of entry are random and firms choose lead times to … buffer processing shocks. Based on this theory, we employ detailed data on import processing dates, instrumental variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219078
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The Effects of Land Redistribution : Evidence from the French Revolution
Finley, Theresa; Franck, Raphaël; Johnson, Noel - 2021
This study exploits the confiscation and auctioning off of Church property that occurred during the French Revolution to assess the role played by transaction costs in delaying the reallocation of property rights in the aftermath of fundamental institutional reform. French districts with a...
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Firm heterogeneity and credit risk diversification
Hanson, Samuel; Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Schuermann, Til - 2005
This paper considers a simple model of credit risk and derives the limit distribution of losses under different assumptions regarding the structure of systematic and idiosyncratic risks and the nature of firm heterogeneity. The theoretical results obtained indicate that if firm-specific risk...
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