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We use spatial discontinuities associated with congressional district borders to identify the effect of political influences on American banks' lending. We show that recipients of the 2008 public capital injection program (TARP) increased mortgage and small business lending by 23% to 60% more in...
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This paper investigates the impact of stock markets and banks on economic growth using a panel data set for the period …
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We analyze government interventions to recapitalize a banking sector that restricts lending to firms because of debt … conditions implementation on sufficient bank participation. Preferred stock plus warrants reduces opportunistic participation by … aggregate credit risk exceed the cost of implicit transfers to bank debt holders …
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How important are bureaucrats for the productivity of the state? And to what extent do the tradeoffs between different policies depend on the implementing bureaucrats' effectiveness? Using data on 16million public procurement purchases in Russia during 2011–2016, we show that over 40 percent...
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This study documents a strong inverse relationship between accident rates and production in a sample of eleven firms in the same narrowly defined industry classification. Given the detailed set of input controls and controls for plant-specific and time-specific factors used in the analysis, the...
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This paper documents and explains the near-permanent banking stress African countries have experienced during the last … 20 years. The central hypothesis is that banking stress comes predominantly from unbooked losses and that the level of … unbooked losses a banking system can accumulate depends on its information environment and on the effectiveness of government …
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proposed by Papke and Wooldridge, 1996, 2008, in univariate cross-sectional and panel contexts. The paper discusses the …
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suggest the results are not stable. We argue that repeated cross sections do not properly specify the model. Panel methods … including hedonic studies and travel cost studies could be enhanced using panel data …
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In an 80-country panel since the 1960s, the convergence rate for per capita GDP is around 1.7% per year. This "beta … "iron-law" rate of 2%. In the post-1960s panel, estimation without country fixed effects supports the modernization … long-term panel with country fixed effects also supports modernization, in the sense of positive effects of per capita GDP …
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studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the "new minimum wage research" is flawed because it …
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