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Government Guarantees and Bank Vulnerability During a Crisis : Evidence from an Emerging Market
Acharya, Viral V.; Kulkarni, Nirupama - 2022
We analyze the performance of Indian banks during 2007–09 relative to their vulnerability to a crisis measured using … pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank … private sector bank branches in districts with greater exposure to state-owned banks experienced deposit withdrawals and …
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Formal Employee Training Programs and Their Impact on Labor Produc- Tivity : Evidence from a Human Resources Survey
Bartel, Ann P. - 2021
Although economic models of training decisions are framed in terms of a company's calculation of the costs and benefits of such training, empirical work has never been able to test this model directly on company behavior. This paper utilizes a unique database to analyze the determinants of the...
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Taxation and On-the-Job Training Decisions
Rosen, Harvey S. - 2022
This paper is an econometric analysis of the on-the-job training (OJT) decisions of a group of white American males during 1975. The data are obtained from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, which asked a very careful series of questions concerning the individual's OJT status. Each individual's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134928
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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets : An Overview
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010
This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest for financial stability with the imperatives of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137321
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Rare Disasters, Financial Development, and Sovereign Debt
Rebelo, Sergio T. - 2018
We propose a model of sovereign debt where countries vary in their level of financial development, defined as the extent to which countries can hedge rare disasters in international capital markets. We show that low levels of financial development generate the “debt intolerance” phenomenon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911106
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Time-Varying Fund Manager Skill
Kacperczyk, Marcin T. - 2011
Mutual fund managers can outperform the market by picking stocks or timing the market successfully. Previous work has estimated picking and timing skill, assuming that each manager is endowed with a fixed amount of each and found some evidence of picking skills and little evidence of timing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118131
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Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance : Emerging-Market Acquisitions in the United States
Chari, Anusha; Chen, Wenjie; Dominguez, Kathryn M.E - 2021
-acquisition performance of publicly traded U.S. firms that have been acquired by firms from emerging markets over the period 1980-2007. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226196
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Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2014
Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 emerging market economies, we estimate the effects of foreign competition, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international...
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Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium : Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?
Valletta, Robert G. - 2016
Wage gaps between workers with a college or graduate degree and those with only a high school degree rose rapidly in the United States during the 1980s. Since then, the rate of growth in these wage gaps has progressively slowed, and though the gaps remain large, they were essentially unchanged...
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Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity : Experimental Evidence from Paraguay
Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2018
ministerial leadership – the principal – introduced a new monitoring technology aimed at improving the performance of agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913385