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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad. Results show, first, that one cannot clearly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255585
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Finance and Growth: A Survey of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature
Eschenbach, Felix - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
economic growth. It starts with the pioneers in this field and then classifies two main schools favouring liberal financial … literature on financial development and endogenous growth pushed the discussion back into the direction initially advocated by … financial development and economic growth. The evidence suggests, however, enormous heterogeneity across countries, regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255816
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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Sorensen, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
domestic firms, we calculate the aggregate impact of foreign investment on country-level productivity growth and find it to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256053
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Risk and Savings: a Taxonomy
Gunning, Jan Willem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
Risk may induce precautionary saving but it can also reduce saving. The theoretical literature recognizes both possibilities, but favors a positive effect (both for developed and developing countries); the empirical literature is divided, reporting (small) positive effects for developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256937
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Capital Regulation and Tail Risk
Perotti, Enrico; Ratnovski, Lev; Vlahu, Razvan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
The paper studies risk mitigation associated with capital regulation, in a context when banks may choose tail risk assets. We show that this undermines the traditional result that higher capital reduces excess risk-taking driven by limited liability. When capital raising is costly, poorly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257356
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Capital Regulation and Tail Risk
Perotti, Enrico; Ratnovski, Lev; Vlahu, Razvan - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
The paper studies risk mitigation associated with capital regulation, in a context when banks may choose tail risk assets. We show that this undermines the traditional result that higher capital reduces excess risk-taking driven by limited liability. When capital raising is costly, poorly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867505
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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad. Results show, first, that one cannot clearly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136991
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Finance and Growth: A Survey of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature
Eschenbach, Felix - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
economic growth. It starts with the pioneers in this field and then classifies two main schools favouring liberal financial … literature on financial development and endogenous growth pushed the discussion back into the direction initially advocated by … financial development and economic growth. The evidence suggests, however, enormous heterogeneity across countries, regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144407
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Interlocking Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from a New Panel Database
Non, Mariëlle C.; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
An interlock between two firms occurs if the firms share one or more directors in their boards of directors. We explore the effect of interlocks on firm performance for 101 large Dutch firms using a large and new panel database. We use five different performance measures, and for each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255468
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The Use of Spatial Filtering Techniques: The Spatial and Space-time Structure of German Unemployment Data
Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
Socio-economic interrelationships among regions can be measured in terms of economic flows, migration, or physical geographically-based measures, such as distance or length of shared areal unit boundaries. In general, proximity and openness tend to favour a similar economic performance among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255516