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Household Debt and Crises of Confidence
Hintermaier, Thomas - 2015
We show that the size of collateralized household debt determines an economy's vulnerability to crises of confidence … rise to multiplicity of house prices. In a dynamic setup, we conceptualize confidence as a realization of rationally … confidence may drive house prices and aggregate consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013592
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Warrant Economics, Call-Put Policy Options and the Fallacies of Economic Theory
Hatgioannides, John - 2012
plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112775
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Family Ties and Political Participation
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159947
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The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences : Global Evidence
Falk, Armin - 2015
for 80,000 individuals, drawn as representative samples from 76 countries around the world, representing 90 percent of … both the world's population and global income. The global distribution of preferences exhibits substantial variation across … systematically with age, gender, and cognitive ability. Around the world, our preference measures are predictive of a wide range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011171
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On the Interpretation of World Values Survey Trust Question : Global Expectations vs. Local Beliefs
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016
How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993949
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Trust, Growth and Well-Being : New Evidence and Policy Implications
Algan, Yann - 2015
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035397
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Revenge of the Experts : Will Covid-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?
Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Saka, Orkun - 2021
It is sometimes said that an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be heightened appreciation of the importance of scientific research and expertise. We test this hypothesis by examining how exposure to previous epidemics affected trust in science and scientists. Building on the "impressionable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314974
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Epidemic Exposure, Financial Technology, and the Digital Divide
Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2022
exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250,000 individuals in 140 countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013406444
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Precious Metal Prices : A Tale of Four U.S. Recessions
Agnese, Pablo; Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2023
This paper empirically examines the degree of persistence in four precious metal prices (i.e., gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) during the last four U.S. recessions. Unit root tests and fractional integration techniques suggest that gold still is the most prominent safe haven asset within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014351417
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Warrant Economics, Call-Put Policy Optionsand the Fallacies of Economic Theory
Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
chorus of the tragedy which plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that,despite the triumphant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486980