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Financial markets, banks' cost of funding, and firms' decisions : lessons from two crises
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - 2013
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 3,000, mostly privately-held, non-financial firms to their bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229932
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Why pay taxes when no one else does?
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2009
present a model which incorporates elements from the theory of information cascades with the standard model of tax evasion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832265
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Undocumented worker employment and firm survival
Brown, J. David (contributor);  … - 2009
. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being more likely to employ undocumented workers if competitors do. Rivals … marginal revenue product. The herding behavior and competitive effects are found to be much weaker in geographically broad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794077
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Why is unemployment duration a sorting criterion in hiring?
Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Couck, Marijke de; Di … - 2017
theory, and rational herding. We use the resulting data to estimate a multiple mediation model, in which the effect of the … mechanisms often related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing … related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing theory, and …
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Informational cascades and decision to migrate
Epstein, Gil S. - 2002
We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406717
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Same process, different outcomes : group performance in an acquiring a company experimen
Casari, Marco; Zhang, Jingjing; Jackson, Christine - 2015
It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why...
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Policies in hard times : assessing the impact of financial crises on structural reforms
Gokmen, Gunes; Nannicini, Tommaso; Onorato, … - 2020
It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and...
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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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Multitasking and subjective performance evaluations : theory and evidence from a field experiment in a bank
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
experiment conducted in a bank. In the treatment group managers obtained access to objective performance measures which raised …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871952
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Does policy advocacy generate good PR? : evidence from labor unions and minimum wages
Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R. - 2023
We develop new facts relating news coverage, interest groups, and events in the legislative histories of minimum wage increases. First, we create and validate a database of news articles that includes coverage of minimum wages and organized labor. Second, we show that policy changes predict...
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