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payments and financial literacy, as well as markets for health insurance, crop insurance, agricultural credit, small firm …
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Existing literature highlights opportunistic behavior as the main reason why rational agents underinvest in relationship-specific assets (the hold-up problem). However, a supplier would also be reluctant to undertake relationship-specific investment if she cannot observe financial stability or...
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-owned commercial banks and rural credit cooperatives did not promote GDP growth during the observation period. State-owned commercial …
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Venture capital (VC) and growth are examined both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, VC-backed startups have higher early growth rates and initial patent quality than non-VC-backed ones. VC backing increases a startup's likelihood of reaching the right tails of the firm size and...
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This paper presents a model of fertility, which is specific for the industrialization that took place during the nineteenth century and which was concurrent with the demographic transition that occurred over the period. While previous research on demographic transition assumed altruism as the...
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From the canonical model of Becker onward, models of population dynamics have been based on assumptions which fit the family structure of developed countries. The aim of this paper is to develop a framework that fits the family structure of poor countries. The building blocks of the model...
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We model the learning process of market traders during the unprecedented COVID-19 event. We introduce a behavioral heterogeneous agents' model with bounded rationality by including a correction mechanism through representativeness (Gennaioli et al., 2015). To inspect the market crash induced by...
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The present paper offers new knowledge of historical national accounting in Norway in several ways. Firstly, a new and novel set of annual gross domestic product series by industry are presented for the period 1830-1930. Secondly, the new estimates suggest revision of the historical national...
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The purpose of this paper is to assess whether the banking system, over and beyond its credit function, has a …, our regressions confidently support the hypothesis that banks contribute to economic development not only as credit … suppliers but also by facilitating transactions. Specifically, along with the ratio of private credit to GDP, the ratio of …
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The temporal interdependence between saving and output has been in focus in a number of recent empirical studies …. Results from these studies have compelled some authors to question the traditional notion of a causal chain where saving leads …. Saving and GDP are estimated in bivariate vector autoregressive or vector error-correction models for Sweden, UK, and USA …
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