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Minton, Bernadette A. - 2017

of a within-bank negative relation between valuation and size for large banks from 1987 to 2006 but not when the post …-Dodd-Frank period is included in the sample. The negative relation between bank value and bank size for large banks cannot be … Tobin's q lower by 0.2% in regressions with year and bank fixed effects. This relation between bank value and trading assets …

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Why Does Fast Loan Growth Predict Poor Performance for Banks?

Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger - 2016

From 1973 to 2014, the common stock of U.S. banks with loan growth in the top quartile of banks over a three-year period significantly underperforms the common stock of banks with loan growth in the bottom quartile over the next three years. The benchmark-adjusted cumulative difference in...

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Bank sovereign bond holdings, sovereign shock spillovers, and moral hazard during the European crisis

Beltratti, Andrea - 2015

From 2010 to 2012, the relation between bank stock returns from European Union (EU) countries and the returns on …

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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2004

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds after controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family background characteristics. The results suggest that the mother's labor supply has deleterious effects on cognitive development,...

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Healthy Living in Hard Times

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2003

Using microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during temporary economic downturns while leisure-time physical activity rises. The drop in tobacco use occurs disproportionately among...

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Shackling the Identification Police?

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2018

This paper examines potential tradeoffs between research methods in answering important questions versus providing more cleanly identified estimates on problems that are potentially of lesser interest. The strengths and limitations of experimental and quasi-experimental methods are discussed and...

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Corporate Deleveraging

DeAngelo, Harry - 2016

Proactive deleveraging from all-time peak market leverage (ML) to near-zero ML and negative net debt is the norm among 4,476 nonfinancial firms with five or more years of post-peak data. ML is 0.543 at the historical peak and 0.026 at the later trough for the median firm in this sample, with a...

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Taking the Measure of a Fatal Drug Epidemic

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2016

This analysis utilizes death certificate data from the Multiple Cause of Death (MCOD) files to better measure the specific drugs involved in drug poisoning fatalities. Statistical adjustment procedures are used to provide more accurate estimates, accounting for the understatement in death...

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Why Does Idiosyncratic Risk Increase with Market Risk?

Bartram, Söhnke M. - 2016

From 1963 through 2015, idiosyncratic risk (IR) is high when market risk (MR) is high. We show that the positive relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across exchanges, firm size, liquidity, and market-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the...

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Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes

Lin, Dajun - 2016

We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control...

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