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Governance Structures and Decision-Making Roles in Inflation-Targeting Central Banks
Tuladhar, Anita - 2005
This paper surveys decision-making roles of governing bodies of central banks that have formally adopted inflation … internal policy decision-making processes. Internal governance practices differ considerably with regard to the roles and inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404225
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Do Tax Rates Encourage Entrepreneurial Activity?
Gordon, Roger H. - 1997
When the top personal tax rates are above the corporate rate, high-income individuals have an incentive to reclassify their earnings as corporate rather than personal income for tax purposes. U.S. tax law at least imposes strict limits on the extent to which employees in publicly traded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400644
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Economic Transition, Entrepreneurial Capacity, and Intergenerational Distribution
Rutherford, Thomas Fox - 2002
A defining feature of transition economies is the expansion of the private sector. Motivated by the observation that new enterprises in transition economies seem to have a strong preference for recruiting young people, this paper studies intergenerational redistribution following from market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399553
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Central Bank Boards Around the World : Why Does Membership Size Differ?
Berger, Helge - 2006
This paper analyzes empirically differences in the size of central bank boards across countries. Defining a board as the body that changes monetary instruments to achieve a specified target, we discuss the possible determinants of a board''s size. The empirical relevance of these factors is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400166
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Family Attachment and the Decision to Move by Race
Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2002
puzzle of the role played by the nuclear and the extended family in the decision to move …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401361
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Does IT help? : information technology in banking and entrepreneurship
Ahnert, Toni; Dörr, Sebastian; Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, … - 2021
This paper analyzes the importance of information technology (IT) in banking for entrepreneurship. To guide our … entrepreneurship by making it easier for startups to borrow against collateral. We provide empirical evidence that job creation by … lending channel for IT banks, entrepreneurship increases more in IT-exposed counties when house prices rise. In line with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605121
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Bankruptcy technology, finance, and entrepreneurship
Souza Sobrinho, Nelson Ferreira - 2017
technology to deal with private debt distress (bankruptcy technology), and obstacles to entrepreneurship (high costs of doing … protection, and eliminate obstacles to entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705385
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Uncertainty and the employment dynamics of small and large businesses
Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - 2015
We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regressionbased forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479342
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Capital regulation, liquidity requirements and taxation in a dynamic model of banking
De Nicolò, Gianni; Gamba, Andrea; Lucchetta, Marcella - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572425
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Precautionary savings in the Great Recession
Mody, Ashoka; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Sandri, Damiano - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572544