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Bank competition, asset allocations and risk of failure : an empirical investigation

Boyd, John H.; De Nicolò, Gianni; Jalal, Abu M. - 2010

This study is an empirical investigation of theoretical predictions concerning the impact of bank competition on bank risk and asset allocations. Recent work (Boyd, De Nicolò and Jalal, 2009, BDNJ henceforth) predicts that as competition in banking increases, the loan-to-asset ratio will rise...

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Shareholder liability and bank failure

Aldunate, Felipe; Jenter, Dirk; Korteweg, Arthur; … - 2021

Does enhanced shareholder liability reduce bank failure? We compare the performance of around 4,200 state-regulated banks of similar size in neighboring U.S. states with different liability regimes during the Great Depression. The distress rate of limited liability banks was 29% higher than that...

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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict

Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023

Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...

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Migration and cultural change

Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020

which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on the sign and direction of convergence. We then use the World Value …

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Cultural remittances and modern fertility

Melki, Mickael; Rapoport, Hillel; Spolaore, Enrico; … - 2024

We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest of Europe in the late 19th century. Employing novel data on French immigration from other European regions from 1850 to 1930, we find that higher immigration to France...

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The effects of gender integration on men : evidence from the U.S. military

Greenberg, Kyle; Wasserman, Melanie; Weber, E. Anna - 2024

Do men negatively respond when women first enter an occupation? We answer this question by studying the end of one of … the causal effects of the introduction of female colleagues on men’s job performance, behavior, and perceptions of … previously all-male units does not negatively affect men’s performance or behavioral outcomes, including retention, promotions …

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US male obesity from 1800-2000 : a long term perspective

Carson, Scott Alan - 2013

This paper calls into question the currently most influential model of international trade. An empirical finding by Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non-liberalized industries has been widely accepted as...

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Baby booming inequality? : demographic change and earnings inequality in Norway, 1967-2000

Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2010

In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial...

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What happens to the husband's retirement decision when the wife's retirement incentives change?

Selin, Håkan - 2012 - This version: 2012-03-22

Several studies have documented a strong correlation in the timing of spouses’ retirement decisions. However, considerably less is known about the causal impact of one spouse's retirement incentives on the retirement decision of the other spouse. Before, but not after, 2001 broad categories of...

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Team production, gender diversity, and male courtship behavior

Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2015

This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men … expected team production if (i) men and women have similar expected ability, and (ii) monetary incentives to exert effort are …

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