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How Does School Accountability Affect Teachers? Evidence from New York City

Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - 2018

Does holding schools accountable for student performance cause good teachers to leave low-performing schools? Using data from New York City, which assigns accountability grades to schools based on student achievement, I perform a regression discontinuity analysis and find evidence of the...

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Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity : Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Hastings, Justine S. - 2010

We use responses to a survey and experiment with participants in Mexico's privatized social security system to examine how financial literacy impacts workers' choice behavior and how simplifying information on management fees may increase measures of price elasticity sensitivity among the...

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Did Mergers Help Japanese Mega-Banks Avoid Failure? Analysis of the Distance to Default of Banks

Harada, Kimie - 2010

In the late 1990s, several large Japanese banks failed for the first time in its postwar history. As the financial environment was deteriorating further, several remaining banks decided to merge among themselves, presumably, to make their operations more efficient to avoid failures. This paper...

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Regulation - the Corridor to Liberalization : The Experience of the Israeli Phone Market 1984-2005

Gronau, Reuben - 2010

20 years, analyzing its impact on consumers' welfare, the monopoly's profitability and its productivity. Though the …

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Cross-Border Acquisitions and Target Firms' Performance : Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level Data

Fukao, Kyoji - 2010

acquisition target based on its productivity level, profitability and other characteristics and whether the performance of … acquisitions improved target firms%u2019 productivity and profitability significantly more and quicker than acquisitions by … domestic firms.Moreover, we find that there is no positive impact on target firms%u2019 profitability in the case of both …

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Asset Sales, Firm Performance, and the Agency Costs of Managerial Discretion

Poulsen, Annette B. - 2010

We argue that management sells assets when doing so provides the cheapest funds to pursue its objectives rather than for operating efficiency reasons alone. This hypothesis suggests that (1) firms selling assets have high leverage and/or poor performance, (2) a successful asset sale is good news...

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Individual Investor Mutual-Fund Flows

Ivkovich, Zoran - 2009

This paper studies the relation between individuals' mutual fund flows and fund characteristics, establishing three key results. First, consistent with tax motivations, individual investors are reluctant to sell mutual funds that have appreciated in value and are willing to sell losing funds....

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Do Hot Hands Exist Among Hedge Fund Managers? An Empirical Evaluation

Jagannathan, Ravi - 2009

We examine whether hot hands exist among hedge fund managers. In measuring performance persistence, we use hedge fund style benchmarks. This allows us to identify managers with valuable skills, and also to control for option-like features inherent in returns from hedge fund strategies. We take...

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Farm Profits, Prices and Household Behavior

LaFave, Dan - 2020

The farm household model, in which decisions about production and consumption are made simultaneously, lies at the heart of many models of development. Empirically modelling these simultaneous choices is not straightforward. The vast majority of empirical studies assume that farm households...

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Why Have Negative Nominal Interest Rates Had Such a Small Effect on Bank Performance? Cross Country Evidence

Lopez, Jose A. - 2018

We examine the effect of negative nominal interest rates on bank profitability and behavior using a cross-country panel …

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