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Measuring Alpha in the Fund Management Industry: Do Female Managers Perform Better?
Babalos, Vassilis; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds’ designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667412
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Intergenerational Risk-Sharing through Funded Pensions and Public Debt
Chen, Damiaan H.J.; Beetsma, Roel; Ponds, Eduard; Romp, … - CESifo - 2014
We explore the benefits of intergenerational risk-sharing through both private funded pensions and via the public debt. We use a multi-period overlapping generations model with a PAYG pension pillar, a funded pension pillar and a government. Shocks are smoothed via the public debt and variations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877853
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Investors' Portfolio Choice and Tax Reforms: The 2008 German Corporate Tax Reform Reconsidered
Stimmelmayr, Michael - CESifo - 2015
The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the latest German corporate income and capital tax reform, which entails a major shift of the capital tax burden from the firm to the household level. Using a dynamic two-country computable general equilibrium model with integrated capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265257
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Pension Benefit Insurance and Pension Plan Portfolio Choice
Crossley, Thomas F. - 2008
Pension benefit guarantee policies have been introduced in several countries to protect private pension plan members from the loss of income that would occur if a plan was underfunded when the sponsoring firm terminates a plan. Most of these public insurance schemes face financial difficulty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768194
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Asset Allocation and Monetary Policy : Evidence from the Eurozone
Hau, Harald - 2014
The eurozone has a single short-term nominal interest rate, but monetary policy conditions measured by real short-term interest rates varied substantially across countries in the period 2003-2010. We use this cross-country variation in the (local) tightness of monetary policy to examine its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045340
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Measuring Alpha in the Fund Management Industry : Do Female Managers Perform Better?
Babalos, Vassilios - 2013
This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds' designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080505
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Asset Allocation and Monetary Policy: Evidence from the Eurozone
Hau, Harald; Lai, Sandy - CESifo - 2014
The eurozone has a single short-term nominal interest rate, but monetary policy conditions measured by real short-term interest rates varied substantially across countries in the period 2003-2010. We use this cross-country variation in the (local) tightness of monetary policy to examine its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948820
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Shadow Banks and the Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro Area
Wischnewsky, Arina - 2018
In this paper, we provide evidence for a risk-taking channel of monetary policy transmission in the euro area that works through an increase in shadow banks' total asset growth and their risk assets ratio. Our dataset covers the period 2003Q1 - 2017Q3 and includes, in addition to the standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912666
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Pension Benefit Insurance and Pension Plan Portfolio Choice
Crossley, Thomas; Jametti, Mario - CESifo - 2008
Pension benefit guarantee policies have been introduced in several countries to protect private pension plan members from the loss of income that would occur if a plan was underfunded when the sponsoring firm terminates a plan. Most of these public insurance schemes face financial difficulty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094172
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How Much Do Means-Tested Benefits Reduce the Demand for Annuities?
Butler, Monika - 2011
We analyze the effect of means-tested benefits on annuitization decisions. Most industrialized countries provide a subsistence level consumption floor in old age, usually in the form of means-tested benefits. The availability of such means-tested payments creates an incentive to cash out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123214