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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn - 2010
-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar …Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent …
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Trust in Public Institutions Over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions ﾖ and particularly trust in banks, business and government ﾖ has declined … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …
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Mortgage Finance and Culture
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2018
Using a nationally representative sample of 12,344 immigrants from 41 different countries of ancestry living in Spain in 2007, we find that the higher the housing-loan penetration in the country of ancestry, the higher the likelihood of having a mortgage in Spain. Similarly, the higher the...
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Reputation and Credit Market Formation : How Relational Incentives and Legal Contract Enforcement Interact
Fehr, Ernst - 2009
The evidence suggests that relational contracting and legal rules play an important role in credit markets but on the basis of the prevailing field data it is difficult to pin down their causal impact. Here we show experimentally that relational incentives are a powerful causal determinant for...
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Finance and Growth at the Firm Level : Evidence from SBA Loans
Brown, J. David - 2015
creation of 1.0-2.1 million and the government's cost per job of $8,200-$18,000 measured five years after the loan year …
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How Successful are Banking Sector Reforms in Emerging Market Economies? Evidence from Impact of Monetary Policy on Levels and Structures of Firm Debt in India
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2016
Many emerging markets have undertaken significant financial sector reforms especially in their banking sectors that have been quite critical for both financial development and real economic activity. In this paper, we investigate the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking...
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Do SBA Loans Create Jobs?
Brown, J. David - 2013
Small Business Administration (SBA) loans have long been one of the most significant policy interventions in the U.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list of all SBA loans linked to annual data on all U.S....
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Does the Community Reinvestment Act Increase Small Business Lending in Lower Income Neighborhoods?
Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, Kyung Min; Earle, John S. - 2022
We estimate the impact of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) on small business lending in lower-income neighborhoods. Using 2004-2016 panel data on census tracts, we apply a combined regression discontinuity and fixed effect method. We find that the number of small business loans increases by...
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The Determinants of Asset Stripping : Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies
Campos, Nauro F. - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
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Yuan and Roubles : Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn - 2015
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to …
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