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We build a moral hazard model to study incentives of financial intermediaries (shortly, bankers) facing a leverage-insurance …, like those of insurance companies and pension funds (ICPFs), which allocate capital to bankers to reach for yield and meet … improving the resiliency of the regulated banking sector, create room for bank disintermediation and do not unambiguously limit …
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We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality...
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We measure technological progress in oceanic shipping by using a large database of daily log entries from ships of the British and Dutch navies and East India Companies to estimate daily sailing speed in different wind conditions from 1750 to 1850. Against the consensus, dating back to North...
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Although urban growth historically depended on large inflows of migrants, little is known of the process of migration in the era before railways. Here we use detailed data for Paris on women arrested for prostitution in the 1760s, or registered as prostitutes in the 1830s and 1850s; and of men...
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