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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
men. Once risk attitude is controlled for, this effect shrinks to only 2.6 percent. We find no difference when single … participation is mainly explained by different risk attitudes and monetary endowments, but women would participate even less in the … capital market if they reacted as sensitively to risk aversion as their male counterparts. Lastly, given participation in the …
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Natural resources, demand for external finance and financial development
Hattendorff, Christian - 2014
The paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the natural resource curse, which postulates a negative link between natural resource abundance and economic growth. It shows empirically that resource-rich countries appear to have a less developed financial system and investigates a potential...
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Does uncertainty reduce growth? : using disasters as natural experiments
Baker, Scott; Bloom, Nicholas - 2013
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The macroeconomic effects of climate shocks in Thailand
Chaitat Jirophat; Pym Manopimoke; Suparit Suwanik - 2022
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Cooling down hot air : a global CGE analysis of post-Kyoto carbon abatement strategies
Böhringer, Christoph - 1999
The Kyoto Protocol marks a break-through in global warming mitigation policies as it sets legally binding emissions targets for major emitting regions. However, realisation of the Protocol depends on the clarification of several issues one of which is the permissible scope of international...
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International trade and the transmission of temperature shocks
Osberghaus, Daniel; Schenker, Oliver - 2022
We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich, theoretically derived, fixed effects structure, we find significant negative short-run effects of high temperature on exports. A month with an average temperature above 30 °C...
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Internationaler Klimaschutz - nicht mehr als symbolische Politik?
Böhringer, Christoph - 2001
Klimaschutz stellt aus Sicht der ökonomischen Theorie ein rein öffentliches Gut dar. Internationale Kooperation zum Zweck der Milderung oder Verhinderung der globalen Erwärmung ist daher mit den bekannten fatalen Anreizproblemen behaftet: Auf der Basis freiwilliger, dezentraler Entscheidungen...
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Fearless woman : financial literacy and stock market participation
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Alessie, Rob; Lusardi, Annamaria; … - 2021 - This version: 2.3.2021
Women are less financially literate than men. It is unclear whether this gap reflects a lack of knowledge or, rather, a lack of confidence. Our survey experiment shows that women tend to disproportionately respond “do not know” to questions measuring financial knowledge, but when this...
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Financial literacy, stock market participation, and financial well-being in Germany
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Janssen, Bennet; Knebel, Caroline; … - 2023
We examine financial literacy in Germany and its relevance for financial well-being. Using data from the Panel on Household Finances collected in 2021, we show that about 62% of German households answer the Big Three financial literacy questions correctly. Those with lower education, who are out...
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Decomposing the yield curve with linear regressions and survey information
Halberstadt, Arne - 2021
The decomposition of bond yields into term premiums and average expected future short rates is impaired by the limited availability of information about the dynamics of the expectations component. Therefore, many studies require the model-implied average expected future short rates to be close...
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