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The divorce revolution and generalized trust : evidence from the United States 1973 - 2010

Viitanen, Tarja - 2014

This paper examines the effect of exposure to a culture of easier divorce as a minor on generalized trust using the … unilateral divorce reforms across the US. According to the results, the divorce revolution seems to have had some effect on trust … effects for women with an additional year of exposure being associated with a 4 percentage point lower generalized trust in …

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From citizen's rights to civic responsibilities

Ronconi, Lucas - 2019

In less developed countries the state does not extends its legality homogenously. A share of the population suffers its absence or its illegal presence. In this article we argue that such irregular state intervention has more negative consequences that previously thought. Individuals who suffer...

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Testing CAPM with a large number of assets

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Yamagata, Takashi - 2012

This paper is concerned with testing the time series implications of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) due to Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965), when the number of securities, N, is large relative to the time dimension, T, of the return series. In the case of cross-sectionally correlated...

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Macroeconomic Forecasting using Filtered Signals from a Stock Market Cross Section

Chatelais, Nicolas; Stalla-Bourdillon, Arthur; Chinn, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

After the Covid-shock in March 2020, stock prices declined abruptly, reflecting both the deterioration of investors' expectations of economic activity as well as the surge in aggregate risk aversion. In the following months however, whereas economic activity remained sluggish, equity markets...

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Do business groups help or hinder technological progress in emerging markets? : evidence from India

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Zhou, Ying - 2014

Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...

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How does the position in business group hierarchies affect workers' wages?

Egger, Hartmut; Jahn, Elke J.; Kornitzky, Stefan - 2021

We merge firm-level data on ownership linkages with administrative data on German workers to analyze how the position in a business group hierarchy affects workers' wages. To acknowledge that ownership linkages are not onedirectional, we propose an index of hierarchical distance to the ultimate...

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Business Groups : Panics, Runs, Organ Banks and Zombie Firms

Colpan, Asli M.; Morck, Randall - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Business groups often contain banks or near banks that can protect group firms from economic shocks. A group bank subordinate to other group firms can become an "organ bank" that selflessly bails out distressed group firms and anticipates a government bailout. A group bank subordinating other...

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Regulating Conglomerates in China : Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program

Chen, Qiaoyi; Chen, Zhao; Liu, Zhikuo; Suárez Serrato, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study a prominent energy regulation affecting large Chinese manufacturers that are part of broader conglomerates. Using detailed firm-level data and difference-in-differences research designs, we show that regulated firms cut output and shifted production to unregulated firms in the same...

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Amerisclerosis? : the puzzle of rising US unemployment persistence

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Koustas, Dmitri - 2013

factors include declining labor mobility, changing age structures, and the decline in trust among Americans. To determine how …

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Business Group Spillovers

Naaraayanan, S. Lakshmi; Wolfenzon, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We compare the investment of standalone firms across regions after a positive shock to the investment opportunities generated by a large-scale highway development project. We show that the standalones' investment sensitivity is lower in regions with a higher density of business groups in the...

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