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Heterogeneous Effects of Credit Constraints on SMEs' Employment: Evidence from the Great Recession
Cornille, David; Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan - 2018
This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial health following the 2008 crisis is used as an...
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On Measuring Uncertainty: Snakes and Ladders
Junankar, Pramod N. (Raja) - 2016
The Global Crisis demonstrated to the world that Ratings Agencies had misled the public about the stability of … although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. …
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Trend in Energy Intensity and Carbon Performance in North Africa
Gourene, Grakolet; Hamouda, Samia Mansour; Brixiova, Zuzana - 2024
Decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation and climate change, increasing resource efficiency, and promoting both sustainable production and sustainable lifestyles is a challenge in North Africa, a region where even a relative decoupling of income growth and carbon (CO2) emissions...
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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.; Kutan, Ali M.; Majumdar, Sudipa - 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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Women Do Not Play Their Aces: The Consequences of Shying Away
Claussen, Jörg; Czibor, Eszter; van Praag, Mirjam C. - 2015
playing behavior consistent with women being more averse towards risk and competition. Moreover, we demonstrate how "shying …
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Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2017
personality traits, challenges regarding the stability of preferences and traits, and challenges when inferring causality …
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The Many Faces of Human Sociality: Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2018
There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity concerns the motivational intricacies as well as the strength of other-regarding behaviors, and raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize...
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Two economists' musings on the stability of locus of control
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Schurer, Stefanie - 2011
Empirical studies of the role of non-cognitive skills in driving economic behavior often rely heavily on the assumption that these skills are stable over the relevant time frame. We analyze the change in a specific non-cognitive skill, i.e. locus of control, in order to directly assess the...
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The Stability of Self-Control in a Population Representative Study
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Kong, Nancy; … - 2021
We investigate the stability of self-control at the population level. Analyzing repeated Brief Self-Control Scale … scores, we demonstrate that self-control exhibits a high degree of mean-level, rank-order, and individual-level stability … important. The stability of self-control is particularly striking given our study period (2017-2020) spans the onset of the …
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The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2023
Parsimony is a desirable feature of economic models but almost all human behaviors are characterized by vast individual variation that appears to defy parsimony. How much parsimony do we need to give up to capture the fundamental aspects of a population's distributional preferences and to...
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