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Riedl, Arno - 2017

To understand why investors hold socially responsible mutual funds, we link administrative data to survey responses and behavior in incentivized experiments. We find that both social preferences and social signaling explain socially responsible investment (SRI) decisions. Financial motives play...

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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...

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Illiquidity and Under-Valuation of Firms

Gale, Douglas M. - 2012

We study a competitive model in which market incompleteness implies that debt-financed firms may default in some states of nature and default may lead to the sale of the firms' assets at fire sale prices when markets are illiquid. This incompleteness is the only friction in the model and the...

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Endogenous Systemic Liquidity Risk

Cao, Jin - 2013

Traditionally, aggregate liquidity shocks are modelled as exogenous events. Extending our previous work (Cao & Illing …, 2008), this paper analyses the adequate policy response to endogenous systemic liquidity risk. We analyse the feedback … between lender of last resort policy and incentives of private banks, determining the aggregate amount of liquidity available …

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Basel Accord and Financial Intermediation : The Impact of Policy

Berka, Martin - 2013

This paper studies loan activity in a context where banks must follow Basel Accord-type rules and acquire financing from households. Loan activity typically decreases when entrepreneurs' investment returns decline, and we study which type of policy could revigorate an economy in a trough. We...

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Optimal Risk-Sharing in Mortgage Contracts : The Effects of Potential Prepayment and Default

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2014

Much of the literature on the economics of mortgage markets has studied the FRM-ARM choice made by individual borrowers. However, to decide if the outcome of such a choice is efficient or approximately so, it is necessary to explore the question of optimal risk-sharing in mortgage contracts. But...

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Creditor Passivity : The Effects of Bank Competition and Institutions on the Strategic Use of Bankruptcy Filings

Hainz, Christa - 2021

Why do banks remain passive? In a model of bank-firm relationship we study the trade-off a bank faces when having defaulting firms declared bankrupt. First, the bank receives a payoff if a firm is liquidated. Second, it provides information about a firm's type to its competitors. Thereby,...

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Rumors and Runs in Opaque Markets : Evidence from Panic of 1907

Fohlin, Caroline - 2016

impact of information asymmetry during the liquidity freeze and market run of October 1907 - one of the most severe financial …

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Liquidity, Term Spreads and Monetary Policy

Aksoy, Yunus - 2013

affect their ability to cover for any liquidity needs and hence influence the premium banks require to carry the maturity … the central bank after a liquidity shock creates a new channel of policy transmission that leads to a sharp decrease in … responses after a liquidity shock. The shortterm rate does not need to decrease as much as when only conventional policies are …

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The Optimal Taxation of Risky Capital Income : The Rate of Return Allowance

Spiritus, Kevin - 2017

We study the optimality of taxing capital income according to a Rate-of-Return Allowance proposed by the Mirrlees Review. In a mean-variance framework the optimal tax on risk-free returns is zero with constant returns to scale in private investment, but positive with decreasing returns to scale,...

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