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Multitasking and subjective performance evaluations : theory and evidence from a field experiment in a bank
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
experiment conducted in a bank. In the treatment group managers obtained access to objective performance measures which raised …
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Repayment versus investment conditions and exclusivity in lending contracts
Bougheas, Spiros P.; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Morrissey, Oliver - 2009
Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations whilst international organizations (official lenders) condition future loans on the implementation of some policy action (‘investment’). We build an...
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Business cycle effects of credit and technology shocks in a DSGE model with firm defaults
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Xu, TengTeng - 2011
habit persistence in consumption behaviour. -- bank credit ; financial intermediation ; firm heterogeneity and defaults …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488413
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Hidden insurance in a moral hazard economy
Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - 2013
We consider an economy where individuals privately choose effort and trade competitively priced securities that pay off with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then standard functional form restrictions ensure that...
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The welfare effects of law enforcement in the illegal money lending market
Leong, Kaiwen; Li, Huailu; Pavanini, Nicola; Walsh, … - 2022
We estimate a structural model of borrowing and lending in the illegal money lending market using a unique panel survey of 1,090 borrowers taking out 11,032 loans from loan sharks. We use the model to evaluate the welfare effects of alternative law enforcement strategies. We find that a large...
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Help in a foreign land : internationalized banks and firms' export
Brancati, Emanuele - 2022
's domestic bank by an internationalized banking group. Our results show that, after the acquisition, firms have a significantly … higher probability of starting export in countries where the consolidated bank has a foreign branch, which proxies for the … mainly reduce firms' fixed entry costs in a foreign market. The analysis also shows that other channels, such as bank credit …
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Banking on snow : bank capital, risk, and employment
Baumgartner, Simon; Stomper, Alex; Schober, Thomas; … - 2022
have less equity capital. Bank capitalization also proxies for the extent to which the regional banks' borrowers can obtain …
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The effect of employment protection on worker effort : a comparison of absenteeism during and after probation
Ichino, Andrea; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2001
. Our analysis is based on weekly observations for the 858 white collar workers hired by a large Italian bank between …
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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald (contributor);  … - 2008
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
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The benefits of linking CGE and microsimulation models : evidence from a flat tax analysis
Peichl, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
Mircrosimulation models (MSM) and Computable General Equilibrium models (CGE) have both been widely used in policy analysis. The combination of these two model types allows the utilisation of the advantages of both types. The aim of this paper is to describe the state-of-the-art in simulation...
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