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Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi traders : refuting Edwards and Ogilvie
Greif, Avner (contributor) - 2008
Edwards and Ogilvie (2008) dispute the empirical basis for the view (Greif, e.g., 1989, 1994, 2006) that multilateral reputation mechanism mitigated agency problems among the eleventh-century Maghribi traders. They assert that the relations among merchants and agents were law-based. This paper...
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Contract enforcement, institutions and social capital : the Maghribi traders reappraised
Edwards, Jeremy S. S. (contributor);  … - 2008
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The impact of containment measures and monetary and fiscal responses on US financial markets during the Covid-19 pandemic
Abakah, Emmanuel Joel Aikins; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2021
daily S&P500, the US Treasury Bond Index (USTB), the S&P Green Bond Index (GREEN) and the Dow Jones (DJ) Islamic World …. The mortality rate, surprisingly, seems to have affected stock and bond prices positively with autocorrelated errors. As …
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US municipal green bonds and financial integration
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2023
green bond returns and volatilities. On the whole, the evidence suggests weaker linkages, and thus a lower degree of …
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Modelling persistence and non-linearities in the US treasury 10-year bond yields
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Yaya, … - 2022
This paper analyses persistence and non-linearities in quarterly and monthly US Treasury 10-year bond yields over the …
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The Covid-19 pandemic and the degree of persistence of US stock prices and bond yields
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Poza, Carlos - 2021
prices and bond yields using fractional integration techniques. The model is estimated first over the period January 1966 … pandemic period. We find that the unit root hypothesis cannot be rejected for stock prices while for bond yields the results … differ depending on the maturity date and the specification of the error term. In general, bond yields appear to be more …
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Measurement and determinants of access to loans
Hainz, Christa; Nabokin, Tatjana - 2013
Measuring and identifying financial constraints represents an important challenge in empirical studies. Due to data limitations perception-based indicators or approximations of access to finance by the usage of finance are often used, disregarding firm-specific differences in the demand for...
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Corporate debt and stock returns : evidence from U.S. firms during the 2020 oil crash
Arezki, Rabah; Cho, Caleb; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen, Kate; … - 2022
This paper explores the effect of oil price fluctuations on the stock returns of U.S. oil firms using a strategy of identification through heteroskedasticity exploiting the 2020 oil crash. Results are twofold. First, we find that a decline in oil prices statistically significantly reduces stock...
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Top incomes, rising inequality, and welfare
Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2012
This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...
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Balanced growth despite Uzawa
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan; Oberfield, Ezra; … - 2016
Evidence for the United States suggests balanced growth despite falling investment-good prices and less than unitary elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This is inconsistent with the Uzawa Growth Theorem. We extend Uzawa.s theorem to show that introducing human capital...
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