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We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We 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...
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volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …
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Unites States of America (USA). We confirm the heterogeneity of Okun's coefficient across country, and its time …
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shock. Third, we present evidence coherent with the idea that more leveraged sectors experience larger employment volatility … market volatility and Okun's elasticity over the business cycle. Second, we highlight a key mechanism linking financial … in normal times deep capital markets lead to tight labor markets. After an adverse liquidity shock, firms that rely much …
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imply significantly increased heterogeneity in circadian timing, and likely sleepiness, of trader decisions compared to …
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This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...
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capital provided a buffer against the shock. After controlling for observable characteristics, education and experience showed …
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a positive financial shock (e.g., winning the lottery). However, trust falls sharply following a negative financial … shock (e.g., bankruptcy). In terms of magnitude, this effect is approximately equivalent to the effect observed after one …, following a negative financial shock. In turn, locus of control is closely associated with interpersonal trust levels. …
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This paper examines the effects of the 2008–09 global economic crisis on people's pro-environmental behaviour and willingness to pay for climate change mitigation. We hypothesise that the crisis has affected pro-environmental behaviours through tightening of budget constraints and relaxation...
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paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …
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