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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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Loan regulation and child labor in rural India
Dāśagupta, Bāsaba; Zimmermann, Christian - 2012
We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal … household types. -- child labor ; India ; informal lending ; lending discrimination ; interest rate caps …
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How successful are banking sector reforms in emerging market economies? : evidence from impact of monetary policy on levels and structures of firm debt in India
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Kutan, Ali Mustafa; Majumdar, Sudipa - 2016
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 … and the associated change in interest rate does not affect change in bank credit, change in total debt and the proportion …
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Learning to take risks? : the effect of education on risk-taking in financial markets
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015
We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people are more likely to invest in the stock market....
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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831857
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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-labour substitution, labour productivity and job reallocation in a cross-country framework. In the spirit of Rajan and Zingales (1998) and Ciccone and Papaioannou (2006), we exploit variation in...
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Accounting for China's growth
Brandt, Loren; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010
China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of the growth, and the role of the intensive versus extensive margin. Growth accounting exercises at the aggregate level (Rawski and Perkins, 2008; Bosworth and Collins, 2008) suggest an...
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Occupational choice and the spirit of capitalism
Doepke, Matthias (contributor);  … - 2007
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values between a...
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Financial sector regulation and reforms in emerging markets : an overview
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010
This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest for financial stability with the imperatives of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153059
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A steady-state model of a non-walrasian economy with three imperfect markets
Wasmer, Etienne - 2011
Unemployment may depend on equilibrium in other markets than the labor markets. This paper adresses this old idea by introducing search frictions on several markets: in a model of credit and labor market imperfections as in Wasmer and Weil (2004), I further introduce search on the goods market....
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