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Work Environment and Individual Background : Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm
Ichino, Andrea - 1999
The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional …
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The Cost of Banking Regulation
Guiso, Luigi - 2006
We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to study both the … effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was … increase in bad loans. In provinces where restrictions to bank competition were most severe, the proportion of bad loans after …
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How Do Banks Set Interest Rates?
Gambacorta, Leonardo - 2004
disentangle loan supply from loan demand shift in the bank lending channel' literature. The results, derived from a sample of … in the pass-through on the interest rate on current accounts depends mainly on banks' liability structure. Bank's size is …
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Accounting for the Duality of the Italian Economy
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Laudati, Dario; Ohanian, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
After 162 years of political unification, Italy still displays large regional economic differences. In 2019, the per capita GDP of Lombardia was 39,700 euros, but Calabria's per capita GDP was only 17,300 euros. We build a two-region, two-sector model of the Italian economy to measure the wedges...
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Insurance Underwriter or Financial Development Fund : What Role for Reserve Pooling in Latin America?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2006
The accumulation of international reserves by emerging markets raises the question of how to best utilize these funds. This paper explores two routes through which the pooling of reserves could enhance stability and welfare. First, the reserve pool could be used for emergency lending in response...
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Whither the World Bank and the IMF?
Krueger, Anne O. - 1997
On their fiftieth anniversary, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were" extensively reviewed, both to …
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Why is there Multilateral Lending?
Rodrik, Dani - 1995
their own bilateral aid programs? If lending by the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks has an independent …
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The Adding Up Problem : A Targeting Approach
Krishna, Kala - 1995
of the lender (the Bank) as compared to those of the borrowers (the countries) must be clear. Second, the extent of the …
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Blended Finance
Flammer, Caroline; Giroux, Thomas; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Blended finance---the use of public and philanthropic funding to crowd in private capital---is a potential way to finance a more sustainable world. While blended finance holds the promise of being catalytic in mobilizing vast amounts of private capital, little is known about this practice. In...
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Remembering to Pay? Reminders vs. Financial Incentives for Loan Payments
Cadena, Ximena - 2011
the current loan), a 25% reduction of the interest rate in the next loan the borrower takes from the bank, or a monthly …
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