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Tiebreaker : Certification and Multiple Credit Ratings
Bongaerts, Dion - 2009
This paper explores the economic role credit rating agencies play in the corporate bond market. We consider three existing theories about multiple ratings: information production, rating shopping and regulatory certification. Using differences in rating composition, default prediction and credit...
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Systematic monetary policy and the macroeconomic effects of shifts in loan-to-value ratios
Bachmann, Ruediger; Rüth, Sebastian - 2017
What are the macroeconomic consequences of changing aggregate lending standards in residential mortgage markets, as measured by loan-to-value (LTV) ratios? In a structural VAR, GDP and business investment increase following an expansionary LTV shock. Residential investment, by contrast, falls, a...
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Common ownership, competition, and top management incentives
Antón, Miguel; Ederer, Florian; Giné, Mireia; … - 2016
We show theoretically and empirically that executives are paid less for their own firm's performance and more for their rivals' performance if an industry's firms are more commonly owned by the same set of investors. Higher common ownership also leads to higher unconditional total pay. We...
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The impact of competition on bank orientation and specialization : the impact of competition on bank orientation
Degryse, Hans; Ongena, Steven - 2004
How do banks react to increased interbank competition? Recent banking theory offers conflicting predictions about the … impact of competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking - and bank … industry specialization. We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation and …
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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms : does liberalization matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …
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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intention : international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling
Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
effect of private-school competition on students’ entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state … shares, students’ academic skills, and parents’ entrepreneurial occupation. -- private school competition ; entrepreneurship …
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The dark side of international cross-listing : effects on rival firms at home
Melvin, Michael (contributor); Valero, Magali (contributor) - 2007
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Electoral competition as a determinant of fiscal decentralization
Jametti, Mario; Joanis, Marcelin - 2011
Fiscal decentralization is high on the agenda in policy fora. This paper empirically investigates the underlying causes of fiscal decentralization, based on the predictions of a simple political economy model. We argue that the likeliness that a central government engages in devolution of powers...
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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation : evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the Renminbi
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...
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Trade openness, market competition, and inflation : some sectoral evidence from OECD countries
Binici, Mahir; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon-sun - 2011
This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after … controlling for productivity effects. Indeed, when market competition and productivity effects are both accounted for, trade …
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