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What Calls to Arms? International Evidence on Interest Rates and the Choice of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages

Badarinza, Cristian - 2014

The relative popularity of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and fixed-rate mort- gages (FRMs) varies considerably both across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs in total mortgage issuance. Using a nine-country...

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Covid-19 and SME Failures

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021

We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on business failures for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using firm-level data in seventeen countries. Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9.1 percentage points, representing 4.6 percent of private sector...

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Nonlinearities in Sovereign Risk Pricing : The Role of CDS Index Contracts

Delatte, Anne-Laure - 2014

Is the pricing of sovereign risk linear during bearish episodes? Or can initial shocks on economic fundamentals be exacerbated by endogenous factors that create nonlinearities? We test for nonlinearities in the sovereign bond market of European peripheral countries during the debt crisis and...

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Clearing the Bar : Improving Tax Compliance for Small Firms Through Target Setting

Al-Karablieh, Yazan; Koumanakos, Evangelos; Stantcheva, … - 2022

We use a new dataset of the universe of Greek corporate tax returns to study a voluntary tax compliance program for small firms. This “self-assessment” program prescribed target taxable profit margins (the ratio of taxable profits to revenues) for different types of activities. Firms that...

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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus

Stock, James H. - 2020

This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...

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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries

Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - 2021

: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls

Ammermueller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Saving and Cohabitation : The Economic Consequences of Living with One'S Parents in Italy and the Netherlands

Alessie, Rob; Brugiavini, Agar; Weber, Guglielmo - 2021

from Italy and the Netherlands. It presents a two-period gametheoretical model where the child has to decide whether to …. We find strong positive effects of the child income share on the saving rate in Italy, where we calculate saving as the … also find some significant effects of the child income share on household saving rate in the Netherlands, where saving is …

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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction

Steier, Lloyd - 2013

, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …

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The Size and Composition of Wealth Holdings in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands

Kapteyn, Arie; Panis, Constantijn - 2021

This paper analyzes retirement saving and portfolio choice in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands. While … worth and gross wealth should be highest in Italy, that Dutch households should hold the lowest wealth levels at retirement …

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