This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of …

ratio) and size (TBA) of the industry are linked to lower sovereign risk in general. Foreign bank penetration and …

unique data set that covers almost all bank-firm relationships in Italy in the period 2004-2013, we find that, during the …

Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking and securitization activities that are orthogonal to real economy and monetary … type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a permanent rise in real GDP and a fall in inflation. Bank … using a model of bank risk-taking and securitization …

Should we exempt the services of insurance companies from VAT? Addressing this issue, the paper distinguishes between … insurance against a general loss of resources and a loss of a specific commodity (property insurance). There is a case for … exempting the former kind of insurance, but not the latter. Finally, comparing insurance through a producer warranty with …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … reveal that the insurance component contributes significantly to optimal labor tax rates and provides an informative lower …

saliency of their professional identity and subsequently measure their risk aversion in a real stakes investment task. If bank … professional norms generally increase bank employees' willingness to take risks …

We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify … document an economically significant correlation of incentive pay with both the level and volatility of bank trading income … bonus share in the capital markets divisions with the strength of incentive pay in unrelated bank divisions like retail …