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The effect of employment protection legislation and financial market imperfections on investment : evidence from a firm-level panel of EU countries
Cingano, Federico; Leonardi, Marco; Messina, Julián; … - 2009
This paper analyzes the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment, capital … stronger in firms with lower levels of internal resources. We find that, on average, EPL reduces investment per worker, capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832294
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Accounting for China's growth
Brandt, Loren; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010
role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940472
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Financial markets, banks' cost of funding, and firms' decisions : lessons from two crises
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - 2013
firms to cut investment, employment, and borrowing. We conclude that financial market fluctuations affect even private firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229932
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Does state-mandated financial education reduce high school graduation rates?
Urban, Carly - 2022
Concerned about low levels of financial literacy among teens and the importance of their looming financial decisions as emerging adults, state policymakers have expanded high school personal finance graduation requirements. Did these added requirements create an additional barrier for students?...
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Relationship between the real estate sector and the stock market in Chinese provinces
Di, Zeyu; Heshmati, Almas; Liu, Sijia - 2022
In China, real estate and the stock market are the two main markets favored by both individual and institutional investors. There is a significant economic link between the two. Therefore, their relationship and long-term and short-term causality can provide good guidance for investors. This...
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Household finances and the "Big Five" personality traits
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2011
We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse the influence of personality traits on financial decision-making at the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523523
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Exponential growth bias and financial literacy
Almenberg, Johan; Gerdes, Christer - 2011
The tendency to underestimate the future value of a variable growing at a constant rate, an example of exponential growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making. We show that exponential growth bias and standard measures of financial literacy are negatively correlated in a...
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Entrepreneurship: cause or consequence of financial optimism?
Dawson, Christopher; De Meza, David E.; Henley, Andrew; … - 2012
Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by more than employees do is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may generate optimism or optimists may be drawn to self-employment. This paper finds that employees who will be self-employed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621866
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The importance of the cognitive environment for intertemporal choice
Kuhn, Michael A.; Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2013
We experimentally manipulate two aspects of the cognitive environment, cognitive depletion and recent sugar intake, and estimate their effects on individuals' time preferences in a way that allows us to identify the structural parameters of a simple (α,β,δ) intertemporal utility function for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721367
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Household finances and social interaction : Bayesian analysis of household panel data
Brown, Sarah; Ghosh, Pulak; Taylor, Karl - 2014
We investigate the relationship between social interaction and household finances using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We contribute to the existing literature by exploring the relationship between a wide range of aspects of household finances and social interaction, rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380024