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Executive board composition and bank risk taking
Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - 2012
financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509092
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Bank profitability, leverage constraints, and risk-taking
Martynova, Natalya; Ratnovski, Lev; Vlahu, Razvan - 2019
Traditional theory suggests that higher bank profitability (or franchise value) dissuades bank risk-taking. We … highlight an opposite effect: higher profitability loosens bank borrowing constraints. This enables profitable banks to take … risk on a larger scale, inducing risk-taking. This effect is more pronounced when bank leverage constraints are looser, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020122
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Banks' equity stakes and lending : evidence from a tax reform
Von Beschwitz, Bastian; Foos, Daniel - 2018
Several papers find a positive association between a bank's equity stake in a borrowing firm and lending to that firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820943
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The evolution of inequality in productivity and wages : panel data evidence
Faggio, Giulia (contributor); Salvanes, Kjell G. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003519956
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Risk attitude and capital market participation : is there a gender investment gap in Germany?
Fey, Jan-Christian; Lerbs, Oliver; Schmidt, Carolin; … - 2020
Do women invest differently than men? We contribute to the answer of this question by analysing the Panel on Household Finances (PHF) of the German Bundesbank. This representative panel collects a wide variety of behavioural and financial variables in the area of household finance. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387111
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Who pays the greenium and why? : a decomposition
Fricke, Daniel; Meinerding, Christoph - 2024
specific green bonds with a sizeable greenium, pointing towards an interaction between the greenium and bank-related financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015079893
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Household external finance and consumption
Besley, Timothy (contributor); Meads, Neil (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper uses mortgage data to construct a measure of terms on which households access to external finance, and relates it to consumption at both the aggregate and cohort levels. The Household External Finance (HEF) index is based on the spread paid by risky borrowers in the mortgage market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770102
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Risk taking and performance in multistage tournaments : evidence from weightlifting competitions
Genakos, Christos (contributor); Pagliero, Mario (contributor) - 2009
We analyze the impact of interim ranking on the risk taking and performance behaviour of professional athletes participating in international weightlifting competitions. Weightlifting competitions are multistage tournaments with the unique characteristic that the athletes must announce in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003868136
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Risk heterogeneity and credit supply : evidence from the mortgage market
Besley, Timothy; Meads, Neil; Surico, Paolo - 2010
This paper uses a unique data set on more than 600,000 mortgage contracts to estimate a credit supply function which allows for risk-heterogeneity. Non-linearity is modelled using quantile regressions. We propose an instrumental variable approach in which changes in the tax treatment of housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695862
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Happiness as a driver of risk-avoiding behavior
Goudie, Robert J. B.; Mukherjee, Sach; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009553527