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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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Many emerging markets have undertaken significant financial sector reforms especially in their banking sectors that … success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument … that well-functioning credit markets would reflect a bank channel for monetary policy at work, we test whether a change in …
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existing jobs. We argue that with well-developed capital markets, firms will have an incentive to rely more on liquidity, and … in normal times deep capital markets lead to tight labor markets. After an adverse liquidity shock, firms that rely much … Recession increased more than in European countries experiencing larger output losses. Empirically, the paper uses a variety of …
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We examine the correlates of reported hiring difficulties at the firm level using linked employer-employee and panel survey data over 2005-2011, focussing on the relative influence of firm-level characteristics, persistence, the business cycle and local labour market liquidity. At both the...
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This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models are specified to study employment decisions based on quarterly administrative firm level data over the period of 2007 to 2012. The data provides information about important...
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This paper investigates the impact of the GFC on youth unemployment and long term unemployment. In particular, we study whether the GFC had a bigger impact on youths than adults, and whether youth unemployment rates increased due to an increase in youth wages relative to adult wages. To...
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In New Zealand, the impact of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was milder than in most other developed countries, with employment declining by 2.5 percent between 2008q4 and 2009q4. Job and worker turnover rates both declined, signalling a reduction in labour market liquidity and difficulties...
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This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...
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In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper exploits heterogeneity in duration of program...
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This study examines the impact of 1997 Asian and 2008 Global financial crises on the capital structure of Korean listed …-2015, the pattern of firms' capital structure before and after the crises is investigated and the speed of adjustment toward the … optimal leverage identified. Different effects of the two crises on both capital structure and its adjustment speed is found …
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