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Building State Capacity : Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2015
Anti-poverty programs in developing countries are often difficult to implement; in particular, many governments lack the capacity to deliver payments securely to targeted beneficiaries. We evaluate the impact of biometrically-authenticated payments infrastructure ("Smartcards") on beneficiaries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033929
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Dividends and Bank Capital in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
Acharya, Viral V. - 2011
-funded capital injections. However, on closer inspection the composition of bank capital shifted radically from one based on common …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128263
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Trust in Public Institutions Over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128268
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Were the Nigerian Banking Reforms of 2005 a Success ... And for the Poor?
Cook, Lisa D. - 2011
data through 2008 to investigate whether bank consolidation and other measures achieved their stated goals and whether they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128269
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Informational Rents, Macroeconomic Rents, and Efficient Bailouts
Philippon, Thomas - 2011
We analyze government interventions to alleviate debt overhang among banks. Interventions generate two types of rents. Informational rents arise from opportunistic participation based on private information while macroeconomic rents arise from free riding. Minimizing informational rents is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130980
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Implications of Corporate Capital Structure Theory for Banking Institutions
Orgler, Yair - 2011
, why commercial bank leverage has tended to increase over time and why large banks tend to have relatively less capital …
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The Domestic and International Effects of Interstate U.S. Banking
Ghironi, Fabio Pietro - 2010
labor supply in response to productivity shocks. Bank market integration thus contributes to a moderation of firm-level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135057
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The Valuation Effects of Geographic Diversification : Evidence from U.S. Banks
Goetz, Martin Richard - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of the geographic diversification of bank holding company (BHC) assets across the United … States on their market valuations. Using two novel identification strategies based on the dynamic process of interstate bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117404
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Why Did U.S. Banks Invest in Highly-Rated Securitization Tranches?
Erel, Isil - 2011
-rated tranches were economically trivial for the typical bank, but banks with greater holdings performed more poorly during the …-rated tranches are not higher for banks with large trading books in regressions that control for bank size. The ratio of highly …-rated tranches holdings to assets increases with bank assets, but not for banks with more than $50 billion of assets. This evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121733
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Banks, Market Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance : An Agent-Based Computational Analysis
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011
how they are resolved. Our analysis sheds new light on the conflict between micro-prudential bank regulation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124233