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The Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being

Bando, Rosangela - 2016

) in their study on a non-contributory pension scheme in Mexico. Thus, we conclude that the effects of non …-contributory pensions on well-being in rural Mexico can be largely generalized to Peru …

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On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

Ajzenman, Nicolás - 2014

manyfold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the … order to reverse the increase in drug-related crime is not high. We estimate it to be approximately 0.1%of Mexico's GDP …

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Non-Contributory Pensions

Galiani, Sebastian - 2014

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) - a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

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Shelter from the Storm : Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums

Galiani, Sebastian - 2013

Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the impact of a housing project run by the NGO TECHO which provides …

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Trust and Saving in Financial Institutions

Galiani, Sebastian - 2020

the use of bank accounts for transactions. The increase in savings is close to double the savings of the treatment over …

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Finance, Firm Size, and Growth

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

This paper examines whether financial development boosts the growth of small firms more than large firms and hence provides information on the mechanisms through which financial development fosters aggregate economic growth. We define an industry's technological firm size as the firm size...

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Restoring Confidence in Troubled Financial Institutions After a Financial Crisis

Calomiris, Charles W.; Carlson, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

actions by bank owners to change management, contract with depositors to extend liability maturity structure, write off bad … assets, and/or inject capital affected bank survival and deposit retention. This historical episode is particularly …

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The Causal Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Busso, Matias - 2014

power. In those situations, governments could attempt to regulate the market or to increase competition. We provide the … first experimental evidence on the effect of increased competition on prices and quality relying on an intervention that …

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Can Emerging Market Bank Regulators Establish Credible Discipline? The Case of Argentina, 1992-1999

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2000

macroeconomic and bank regulatory reform. Bank regulatory policy promoted privatization, financial liberalization, and free entry …. Argentina's bank regulatory system now is widely regarded as one of the two or three most successful among emerging market …

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Do Bank Insiders Impede Equity Issuances?

Goetz, Martin - 2020

greater insider ownership leads to less equity issuances. Several tests are consistent with the view that bank insiders are … between bank equity and lending, the results stress that ownership structure can shape the resilience of banks--and hence the …

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