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Systemic risk and the great depression
Das, Sanjiv R.; Mitchener, Kris; Vossmeyer, Angela - 2018
U.S. banking crisis of the 20th century. Our systemic risk measure captures both the credit risk of an individual bank … as well as a bank's position in the network. We construct linkages between all U.S. commercial banks in 1929 and 1934 so … banking crisis that occurred between 1930-33 raised systemic risk per bank by 33% and increased the riskiness of the very …
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Finance, talent allocation, and growth
D'Acunto, Francesco; Frésard, Laurent - 2018
The growing finance wage premium is related to a modest net reallocation of skilled workers from non-finance sectors into finance in a broad sample of 24 countries over 35 years. The reallocation is higher when the finance wage premium grows faster than the contribution of the financial sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794229
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Competition and risk taking in local bank markets : evidence from the business loans segment
Canta, Chiara; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Ulsaker, Simen A. - 2023
unique dataset providing information about all bank loans to Norwegian firms over several years. Rather than relying on … observed market shares, we use the distance between bank branches and firms to measure the competitiveness of local markets … banks. We find that more competition leads to more risk taking. We also examine the effects of bank competition on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014284697
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Fiscal shocks and real exchange rate dynamics : some evidence for Latin America
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641715
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Schooling, cognitive skills, and the Latin American growth puzzle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850158
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International financial integration and real exchange rate long-run dynamics in emerging countries : some panel evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Hadj Amor, Thouraya; Rault, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...
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Substitutability and protectionism : Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India
Facchini, Giovanni; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496675
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Growth and volatility of tax revenues in Latin America
Fricke, Hans; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2011
Against the background of a notoriously high macroeconomic instability and the need to raise tax revenues to meet the demands of public spending, this paper analyzes the tradeoff between growth and volatility of tax revenues in Latin America. We use a two-step Engle-Granger-type model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009230
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Sources of real exchange rate volatility and international financial integration : a dynamic GMM panel approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Hadj Amor, Thouraya; Rault, … - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide some new empirical evidence on the determinants of volatility of real exchange rates in emerging countries, focusing on the role of international financial integration in particular. A reduced-form model is estimated using the GMM method for dynamic panels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009378390
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The EMBI in Latin America : fractional integration, non-linearities and breaks
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Carcel, Hector; Gil-Alaña, … - 2015
This paper analyses the main statistical properties of the Emerging Market Bond Index (EMBI), namely long-range dependence or persistence, non-linearities, and structural breaks, in four Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela). For this purpose it uses a fractional...
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