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From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such a link appear at the expense of higher income...
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We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski … managed firm ; productive efficiency ; Mondragon ; shared capitalism …
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. Finally we assess the role of risk, finding little evidence that risk-aversion drives a wedge between market prices and …
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stronger distaste for low relative wealth translates into reduced relative risk aversion and, consequently, into riskier … prone to divorce exhibit risk-taking behavior that is more similar to that of single men than married men in environments …
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shocks to the first and second moments of idiosyncratic risk on macroeconomic outcomes. An increase in demand uncertainty …
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uncertainty ; wage shocks ; risk sharing ; wage insurance …
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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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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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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 …
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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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