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Incentive Pay and Bank Risk-Taking : Evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss Banks
Efing, Matthias - 2014
We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify … document an economically significant correlation of incentive pay with both the level and volatility of bank trading income … share in the capital markets divisions with the strength of incentive pay in unrelated bank divisions like retail banking …
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Banking and Insurance
Haubrich, Joseph G. - 1984
. However, a financial institution -- perhaps best viewed as a savings bank -- can provide partial insurance by generating a … the bank faces a tradeoff between provision of insurance and maintenance of private incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477783
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Relationship Banking and the Pricing of Financial Services
Calomiris, Charles - 2006
We investigate how banking relationships that combine lending and underwriting services affect the terms of lending, through both loan supply- and loan demand-side effects, and the underwriting costs of debt and equity issues. We capture and control for firm characteristics, including...
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Liberalization in China's Key Service Sectors Following WTO Accession : Some Scenarios and Issues of Measurement
Whalley, John - 2003
This paper documents and assesses the significance of the policy changes in China that WTO accession implies in 3 key service categories (banking, insurance, and telecoms), asking whether it is likely they will really be fully implemented in their entirety as undertaken at signature in 2002....
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The Trend of BMI Values of US Adults by Centiles, birth cohorts 1882-1986
Komlos, John - 2010
Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...
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The Trend of Mean BMI Values of US Adults, Birth Cohorts 1882-1986 Indicates that the Obesity Epidemic Began Earlier than Hitherto Thought
Komlos, John - 2010
The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data are unavailable and because the focus has been on calculating period effects. In contrast to the prevailing strategies, we estimate the trend and rate of change of BMI values by birth...
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Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography
Kim, Sukkoo - 2003
We review historical patterns of economic geography' for the United States from the colonial period to the present day. The analysis is framed in terms of two geographic scales: regions and cities. The compelling reason for studying geographic areas of different scales is that models that...
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Gallman Revisited : Blacksmithing and American Manufacturing, 1850-1870
Atack, Jeremy - 2017
In nineteenth century America, blacksmiths were a fixture in every village, town and city, producing a diverse range of products from axes to wheels and services from repairs to horse-shoeing. In constructing his historical GNP accounts Robert Gallman opted to exclude these "jacks-of-all-trades"...
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Invisible Women : Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Firms in France during Early Industrialization
Khan, B. Zorina - 2015
Family firms are typically associated with negative characteristics, including lower tendencies towards innovation, a higher risk of failure, and inefficiencies deriving from nepotism among family members, criticisms which are even greater when the company is handed over to a female relative....
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Corporate Governance and the Development of Manufacturing Enterprises in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
Hilt, Eric - 2014
This paper analyzes the use of the corporate form among nineteenth-century manufacturing firms in Massachusetts, from newly collected data from 1875. An analysis of incorporation rates across industries reveals that corporations were formed at higher rates among industries in which firm size was...
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