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Where has all the money gone? : Foreign aid and the quest for growth
Chatterjee, Santanu (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607741
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Private information, human capital, and optimal “home bias” in financial markets
Ehrlich, Isaac; Shin, Jong Kook; Yin, Yong - 2011
By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516904
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New moneys under the new normal? : bitcoin and gold interdependence during COVID times
Agnese, Pablo; Thoss, Jonathan - 2021
Bitcoin in particular and so-called cryptocurrencies in general have shaken up the financial world and seem to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517614
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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010
World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942325
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Gender match and the gender gap in venture capital financing: evidence from shark tank
Jetter, Michael; Stockley, Kieran - 2021
Although the gender gap in entrepreneurs' success rates to secure funding is staggering, we know little about its causes. This is because observing both sides of investor-entrepreneur interactions (especially for unsuccessful pitches) is difficult in reality, and the associated extraordinary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430657
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Testing CAPM with a large number of assets
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Yamagata, Takashi - 2012
This paper is concerned with testing the time series implications of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) due to Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965), when the number of securities, N, is large relative to the time dimension, T, of the return series. In the case of cross-sectionally correlated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535779
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Higher-order beliefs and risky asset holdings
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Yin, Xiao - 2024
We combine a customized survey and randomized controlled trial (RCT) to study the effect of higher-order beliefs on U.S. retail investors' portfolio allocations. We find that investors' higher-order beliefs about stock market returns are correlated with but distinct from their first-order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580789
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196029
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To own or not to own? : household portfolios, demographics and institutions in a cross-national perspective
Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - 2013
Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212303
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Precious metal prices : a tale of four U.S. recessions
Agnese, Pablo; Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2023
This paper empirically examines the degree of persistence in four precious metal prices (i.e., gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) during the last four U.S. recessions. Unit root tests and fractional integration techniques suggest that gold still is the most prominent safe haven asset within...
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