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Tortorice, Daniel L.; Bloom, David E.; Kirby, Paige; … - 2020

Social impact bonds (SIBs) are an innovative financing mechanism for public goods. In a SIB, an investor provides capital to a service provider for a social intervention. The investor receives a return based on the outcome of the intervention relative to a predetermined benchmark. We describe...

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Interest rate hysteresis in macroeconomic investment under uncertainty

Belke, Ansgar; Göcke, Matthias - 2019

The interest rate is generally considered as an important driver of macroeconomic investment. As an innovation, this paper derives the exact shape of the "hysteretic" impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under the scenarios of both certainty and uncertainty. We...

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Fiscal policy, interest rate spreads, and the zero lower bound

Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko; Schabert, Andreas - 2015

This paper questions unconventional fiscal policy effects when the monetary policy rate is at the zero lower bound. We provide evidence for the US that the spread between the policy rate and the US-LIBOR, which is more relevant for private sector transactions, increases with government...

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Distributional effects of monetary policy in emerging market economies

Prasad, Eswar S.; Zhang, Boyang - 2015

households are worse off due to higher consumption volatility. A fixed exchange rate reduces the welfare of these households and …

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Volatility and growth : governments are key

Jetter, Michael - 2013

paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …

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Financial markets, banks' cost of funding, and firms' decisions : lessons from two crises

Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - 2013

We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over...

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The variability and volatility of sleep: an archetypal approach

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2022

individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … young children at home. Volatility is greater among parents with young children, slightly greater among men than women, but … independent of other demographics. A theory of economic incentives to minimize the dispersion of sleep predicts that higher …

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Predictability of asset returns and the efficient market hypothesis

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2010

This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...

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Skewness expectations and portfolio choice

Drerup, Tilman H.; Wibral, Matthias; Zimpelmann, Christian - 2022

Many models of investor behavior predict that investors prefer assets that they believe to have positively skewed return distributions. We provide a direct test of this prediction in a representative sample of the Dutch population. Using individual-level data on return expectations for a broad...

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From Stocks to Flows – Evidence for the Climate-Migration-Nexus

Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik; Steinhardt, Max … - 2021

Slow onset climate change has the potential to cause significant migration flows. Scientists have recently made considerable efforts to quantify these flows based on empirical methods. However, the literature on international migration has failed to come to a clear conclusion as many studies...

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