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The Relationship Dilemma : Organizational Culture and the Adoption of Credit Scoring Technology in Indian Banking
Mishra, Prachi - 2019
Credit scoring was introduced in India in 2007. We study the pace of its adoption by new private banks (NPBs) and state … banks suggests that neither bank size nor government ownership fully explains adoption patterns. Organizational culture …
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Government Guarantees and Bank Vulnerability during a Crisis : Evidence from an Emerging Market
Acharya, Viral V. - 2019
pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank … private sector bank branches in districts with greater exposure to state-owned banks experienced deposit withdrawals and … shortening of deposit maturity. In contrast, nearby vulnerable state-owned bank branches grew their deposit base and increased …
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Do Sell-Side Analysts Say "Buy" While Whispering "Sell"?
Hirshleifer, David; Shi, Yushui; Wu, Weili - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine how sell-side equity analysts strategically disclose information of differing quality to the public versus the buy-side mutual fund managers to whom they are connected. We consider cases in which analysts recommend that the public buys a stock, but some fund managers sell it. We...
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RIM-Based Value Premium and Factor Pricing Using Value-Price Divergence
Cong, Lin William; George, Nathan Darden; Wang, Guojun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document that value-to-price, the ratio of Residual-Income-Model-based valuation to market price, subsumes the power of book-to-market ratio and many other value or quality measures in predicting stock returns. Long-short value-to-price portfolios hedge against momentum, revitalize the...
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Internalizing Externalities : Disclosure Regulation for Hydraulic Fracturing, Drilling Activity and Water Quality
Bonetti, Pietro; Leuz, Christian; Michelon, Giovanna - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The rise of shale gas and tight oil development has triggered a major debate about hydraulic fracturing (HF). In an effort to mitigate risks from HF, especially with respect to water quality, many U.S. states have introduced disclosure mandates for HF wells and fracturing fluids. We use this...
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Accounting for Environmental Activity : Measuring Public Environmental Expenditures and the Environmental Goods and Services Sector in the US
Fixler, Dennis J.; Hass, Julie L.; Highfill, Tina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How much of the economy is focused on protecting, rehabilitating, or managing the environment? To answer this question, we develop a proof-of-concept environmental activity account to quantify the environmental goods and services sector (EGSS) in the United States. Methodologically, we employ a...
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Does Inflation Affect Earnings Relevance? A Century-Long Analysis
Binz, Oliver; Graham, John R.; Kubic, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Financial reports present assets, liabilities, and earnings on a nominal basis (unadjusted for inflation). Using a novel dataset of nearly a century of financial reports, this paper examines whether and how inflation affects the relation between accounting earnings and stock market value, i.e.,...
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Does management matter? : evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011
"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen...
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores
Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2011
school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …
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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT
Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000
protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …
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