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Regulation, financial crises, and liberalization traps
Marchionne, Francesco; Pisicoli, Beniamino; Fratianni, … - 2019
To reconcile the mixed empirical results, we develop a theoretical model whose main implication is a concave impact of regulation on the probability of a crisis. We test this relationship by applying a Probit model of a non-linear specification to annual data from 1999 to 2011 drawn from 132...
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Omnimetrics and awards
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
The digital revolution has led to a quantification of ever more areas of human life and society. At the same time, there is an explosion of the number of awards, which by their very nature are based on non-quantified performance. Will quantification take over completely, leading to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700242
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Banks' portfolio of government debt and sovereign risk
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Monteiro, Sofia - 2023
banks' portfolio of public debt and reduces the percentage holdings in the case of central banks. Better sovereign ratings …We analyze domestic, foreign, and central banks holdings of public debt for 31 countries for the period of 1989 … also increase (decrease) the share of commercial (central) banks' holdings. Furthermore, the effects of an increment in the …
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations : causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2022
We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798127
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Embedded supervision : how to build regulation into decentralised finance
Auer, Raphael A. - 2022
same rules. This paper makes the case for embedded supervision, ie a regulatory framework that provides for compliance in … requirements that would promote low-cost supervision and a level playing field for small and large firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206072
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Can peer mentoring improve online teaching effectiveness? : an RCT during the COVID-19 pandemic
Hardt, David; Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes - 2020
Online delivery of higher education has taken center stage but is fraught with issues of student self-organization. We conducted an RCT to study the effects of remote peer mentoring at a German university that switched to online teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mentors and mentees met...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308624
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Who teaches the teachers? : a RCT of peer-to-peer observation and feedback in 181 schools
Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix; Wyness, Gill - 2020
This paper evaluates a widely used, low stakes, teacher peer-to-peer observation and feedback program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a two-year program in which three fourth and fifth...
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Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects
Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021
We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...
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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are significantly less likely to enter the...
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Stock markets, banks and long run economics growth : a panel cointegration-based analysis
Cavenaile, Laurent; Gengenbach, Christian; Palm, Franz C. - 2013
The aim of this paper is to investigate the long run relationship between the development of banks and stock markets … as evidence supporting the significance of financial development for economic development although banks and stock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223077