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Media capture by banks
Durante, Ruben; Fabiani, Andrea; Laeven, Luc; Peydró, … - 2022
Do media slant news in favor of the banks they borrow from? We study how lending connections affect news coverage of banks earnings reports and of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis on major newspapers from several European countries. We find that newspapers cover announcements by their lenders...
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The effect of unemployment on self-reported health and mental health in Greece from 2008 to 2013 : a longitudinal study before and during the financial crisis
Drydakis, Nick - 2014
The current study uses six annual waves of the Longitudinal Labor Market Study (LLMS) covering the 2008-2013 period to obtain longitudinal estimations suggesting statistically significant negative effects from unemployment on self-reported health and mental health in Greece. The specifications...
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The long-term effects of labor market entry in a recession : evidence from the Asian financial crisis
Choi, Eleanor Jawon; Choi, Jaewoo; Son, Hyelim - 2020
This study investigates the long-term effects of initial labor market conditions by comparing cohorts who graduated from college before, during, and after the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis in South Korea. We measure the overall welfare effect by examining their labor market activities, family...
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Becoming sensitive : males' risk and time preferences after the 2008 financial crisis
Jetter, Michael; Magnusson, Leandro M.; Roth, Sebastian - 2020
This paper presents evidence suggesting men's (but not women's) risk and time preferences have systematically become sensitive to local economic conditions since the 2008 financial crisis. Studying longitudinal, nationally representative data for 22,579 Australian-based respondents in up to 11...
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The economic and social determinants of migrants' well-being during the global financial crisis
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - 2018
This paper investigates the economic and social determinants affecting the well-being of temporary migrants before, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover migration spells from Tajikistan between 2001 and 2011, we find that migrants earn less but stay...
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COVID-19 and employment in South Korea: trends and comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis
Nam, Minhyuk; Lee, Soohyung - 2021
We examine the impact of COVID-19 on employment in South Korea as of June 2020. To estimate the causal effect, we use two complementary methods. First, using individual-level data without residence information, we estimate the effects by controlling for detailed characteristics of individuals....
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Access to banking services and poverty reduction : a state-wise assessment in India
Bhandari, Amit Kumar - 2009
Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the … banking services to maximum number of people is unsuccessful as a poverty reduction strategy. As a poverty reduction strategy …, developing inclusive financial systems should give priority, which is financially and socially sustainable. -- Banking …
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Why use ROSCAs when you can use banks? : theory and evidence from Ethiopia
Kedir, Abbi Mamo; Disney, Richard; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2011
Much of the existing literature on the use of informal credit arrangements such as ROSCAs (Rotating and Credit Saving Associations) theorises the use of such institutions as arising from market failures in the development of formal saving and credit mechanisms. As economic development proceeds,...
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Incentive pay and performance : insider econometrics in a multi-unit firm
Bogaard, Hein; Švejnar, Jan - 2013
We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern HRM policies in an emerging market context. We have branch-level data and use our knowledge of the process that led to the adoption of the reforms to implement two estimators...
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Effect of perceptions and behaviour on access to and use of financial service : evidence from South Africa
Annim, Samuel Kobina; Arun, Thankom; Kostov, Philip - 2012
This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b) investment/savings and (c) insurance/assurance Using FinScope dataset from South Africa over the period 2003 to 2009,ordered probit, generalized ordered probit and pseudo panel...
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